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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN SANCTUARY, by JANE BARLOW Poet's Biography First Line: Across the lone floor of the rayless night Last Line: And lo! The clear east all climbing rose. Subject(s): Churches; Prayer; Sanctuaries; Cathedrals | |||
ACROSS the lone floor of the rayless night One came to a door that was barred on light, A glimmer agleam through beckoning chink, As with lamp's still beam, as with taper's blink. And sore she sued their shrine to win, From mirk and moan of the wild shut in, And fled the fear its menace bore With shrouding of shadow evermore. So out of the dark, as it breathed its dread, Shrill crying, she knocked with a hope ill-sped, For grim and stark that portal wide At her hand's touch mocked, and her prayer denied. Then sick at heart, that found not grace, She turned her again the night to face, As terror turns on swift-foot foes— And lo! the clear east all climbing rose. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIRGIN IN GLASS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF: 3. FEEDING THE RABBITS by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN DOMESDAY BOOK: FATHER WHIMSETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HALF-AND-HALF by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE AT THE CHURCH DOOR by GEORGE SANTAYANA A CURLEW'S CALL by JANE BARLOW |
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