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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind?
Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind?
Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness
What is this crying that I hear in the wind?
Is it the old sorrow and the old grief?
Or is it a new thing coming, a whirling leaf
About the grey hair of me who am weary and blind?
I know not what it is, but on the moor above the shore
There is a stone which the purple nets of the heather bind,
And thereon is writ: She will return no more.
O blown whirling leaf,
And the old grief,
And wind crying to me who am old and blind!
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