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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WHITE OWL, by CAMILLA DOYLE
First Line: He comes in the twilight
Last Line: The antiquity of night.
Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Bedtime
First Line: He comes in the twilight
Last Line: The antiquity of night.
Subject(s): Birds; Night; Owls; Bedtime
He comes in the twilight—
Evening after evening;
Year after year we have watched him.
The last rays of the sun
Seem held in his transparent wings
Whose quills themselves are spread as glimmering rays.
He sweeps round the field
With dignity and mystery,
With the pride befitting a bird of legend,
As though he remembered that a goddess with an owl
Was worshipped in Ancient Greece.
He seems very old,
Old with the antiquity of shadowy barns,
The antiquity of hollow trees,
The antiquity of Night.
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