THIS after-sunset is a sight for seeing, Cliff-heads of craggy cloud surrounding it. - And dwell you in that glory-show? You may; for there are strange strange things in being, Stranger than I know. Yet if that chasm of splendour claim your presence Which glows between the ash cloud and the dun, How changed must be your mortal mould! Changed to a firmament-riding earthless essence From what you were of old: All too unlike the fond and fragile creature Then known to me.... Well, shall I say it plain? I would not have you thus and there, But still would grieve on, missing you, still feature You as the one you were. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEA GODS: 3 by HILDA DOOLITTLE UPON THE SAYING THAT MY VERSES WERE MADE BY ANOTHER by ANNE KILLIGREW THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS IN A GARDEN by PAULINE B. BARRINGTON ORA PRO NOBIS by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH A RHPASODY; WRITTEN AT THE LAKES IN WESTMORLAND by JOHN BROWN (1715-1766) |