Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEPARTURE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: The night wears on, the lawns are grey with dew Last Line: And leave him in the wilderness alone? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
THE night wears on, the lawns are grey with dew, The Easter of the dawn will soon be here: And I must leave the happy world I knew, And front the Heaven I worship and I fear. Dawn that in awe and trembling I desire, Bloom in the skies as flaming and as bright As Enoch saw the chariot-wheels of fire Divide the darkness of the desert night. Ah, when beside that palm tree in the sand The fiery swiftness trembled, did his will Grow faint, to leave the long familiar land? Or did he feel a dizzier terror still Lest, like a dream, that chariot should be gone And leave him in the wilderness alone? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON |
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