Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: COMPENSATION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the days are silent all Last Line: "shall a voice still moan...""remember!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Travel; Journeys; Trips | ||||||||
WHEN the days are silent all Till the drear light falls; And the nights pass with the pall Of Love's funerals; When the heart is weighed with years; And the eyes too weak for tears; And life like death appears; Is it nought, O soul of mine, To hear i' the windy track A voice with a song divine Calling thy footsteps back To the land thou lovest best, Toward the Garden in the West Where thou hast once been blest? Is it nought, O aching brow, To feel in the dark hour, Which came, though called, so slow, And, though loathed, yet lingers slower, A hand upon thy pain, Lovingly laid again, Smoothing the ruffled brain? O love, my own and only! The seraphs shall not see By my looks that life was lonely; But that 't was blest by thee. If few lives have been more lone, Few have more rapture known, Than mine and thine, my own! When the lamp burns dim and dimmner; And the curtain close is drawn; And the twilight seems to glimmer With a supernatural dawn; And the Genius at the door Turns the torch down to the floor, Till the world is seen no more; In the doubt, the dark, the fear, 'Mid the spirits come to take thee, Shall mine to thine be near, And my kiss the first to wake thee. Meanwhile, in life's December, On the wind that strews the ember, Shall a voice still moan..."Remember!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING THE LAST WISH by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: AUX ITALIENS by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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