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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWELVE SONNETS: 4. LONELY SEASONS, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) First Line: But there are lonely times when all the seas Last Line: Wherethrough once love's embroidered sandal strolled. Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness | |||
But there are lonely times when all the seas Seem stricken into mournful dreary grey, And no sunlight streams o'er the darkened day, And not one sign of music charms the breeze Or breaks the silence of the leaden trees, Nor are the clouds made glad by one moon-ray:— We are not yet completely one; delay Wearies,—and lonely long weeks blight and freeze. Then life seems purposeless. My lyre rings hollow: I cease to track the footprints of Apollo, And every sunset's wings, once draped in gold, Hang damp and heavy o'er the lifeless woods, And windless are the waste drear solitudes Wherethrough once Love's embroidered sandal strolled. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES A GIFT OF SPRING by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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