Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ABANDONED, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight touched the sombre waters white Last Line: All, save the drowning agony of breath. Subject(s): Abandonment; Desertion | ||||||||
The moonlight touched the sombre waters white. Beneath the bridge 'twas darker. Was she cold? She shivered. Her poor shawl was worn and old, And she was desolate, and it was night. The slow canal crept onward; to her sight It seemed to beckon, and the lapping told Of rest and quiet sleep: how sweet to fold The hands from toil and close the eyes from light, And so shut out all memory, and go There where men sleep, and dreams, perhaps, are not. O never any dreams, she murmured; so, Longing for sleep, the sleep that comes with death, She fell, she felt the water, and forgot All, save the drowning agony of breath. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON by JOHN ASHBERY SPEAKING OF LOSS by LUCILLE CLIFTON ROTHKO'S LAST MEDITATION by BOB HICOK HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 2. CAMBODIA by KAREN SWENSON THE DESERTER['S MEDITATION] by JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN NERVES by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS |
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