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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, FR. LEONI, A ROMANCE OF ITALY, by JOHN RUSKIN Poet's Biography
First Line: Full, broad, and bright, is the silver light
Last Line: O'er the deep, silent, surge of sorrow.
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting
First Line: Full, broad, and bright, is the silver light
Last Line: O'er the deep, silent, surge of sorrow.
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting
FULL, broad, and bright, is the silver light
Of moon and stars on flood and fell;
But in my breast is starless night,
For I am come to say farewell.
How glad, how swift, was wont to be
The step that bore me back to thee;
Now coldly comes upon my heart
The meeting that is but to part.
I do not ask a tear, but while
I linger where I must not stay,
Oh, give me but a parting smile,
To light me on my lonely way.
To shine a brilliant beacon star,
To my reverted glance, afar,
Through midnight, which can have no morrow,
O'er the deep, silent, surge of sorrow.
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