Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD GHOST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water an old ghost strode Last Line: At his yearning desire and agony. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Grief; Longing; Sea; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean | ||||||||
OVER the water an old ghost strode To a churchyard on the shore, And over him the waters had flowed A thousand years or more, And pale and wan and weary Looked never a sprite as he; For it's lonely and it's dreary The ghost of a body to be That has mouldered away in the sea. Over the billows the old ghost stepped, And the winds in mockery sung; For the bodiless ghost would fain have wept Over the maiden that lay so young 'Mong the thistles and toadstools so hoary. And he begged of the waves a tear, But they shook upwards their moonlight glory, And the shark looked on with a sneer At his yearning desire and agony. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS BALLAD OF HUMAN LIFE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE FOR WOLFRAM by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SAILORS' [OR MARINERS'] SONG by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |
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