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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WITH MY FANCY, by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT First Line: With my fancy I grasped at the vague shadows straying Last Line: And the stairway was swaying underneath my light tread. Subject(s): Shadows | |||
With my fancy I grasped at the vague shadows straying, At the vague shadows straying where the daylight had fled; I ascended a tower, and the stairway was swaying, And the stairway was swaying underneath my light tread. And the higher I climbed, ever clearer were rounded, Ever clearer were rounded dreaming hilltops aglow; And from Heaven to Earth twilight voices resounded, Twilight voices resounded from above and below. And the higher I rose, strange horizons defining, Strange horizons defining, did the summits appear; And my eyes as I looked were caressed by their shining, Were caressed by their shining, their farewell, sad and clear. Now the night had appeared; Earth in darkness lay dreaming, Earth in darkness lay dreaming, like a slumbering star, While the smoldering sun, his dim embers still gleaming, His dim embers still gleaming, shone for me from afar. I had learned to ensnare the vague shadows far straying, The vague shadows far straying, where the daylight had fled; Ever higher I rose, and the stairway was swaying, And the stairway was swaying underneath my light tread. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ANIMAL INSIDE THE ANIMAL by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN DRIVING ALONGSIDE THE HOUSANTONIC RIVER ALONE ON A RAINY APRIL NIGHT by WILLIAM MATTHEWS NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY by CONRAD AIKEN SONATA IN PATHOS by CONRAD AIKEN I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE by JAMES GALVIN HYMN TO FIRE by KONSTANTIN DMITRIYEVICH BALMONT |
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