Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALONE, by A. F. EHRENBURG


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First Line: Again I stood alone upon that bridge
Last Line: Of moon, and waves, and brooding april night.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness


Again I stood alone upon that bridge,
Beneath the laughing waters rippled on;
The moon's reflection, like a silver chain,
From crest to crest danced dreamy fairy dances.
As wave by wave now rolls beyond the dark,
So days and nights and years have passed away
Since first I stood here—all alone—and saw
The moon, the waves, the brooding April night,
And heard the dim horizon echo gloomy
My own embittered thoughts. How oft since then
Did I come back—on bleak October nights,
On fragrant summer evenings. Waves and moon
Were always there, the shade of night, and soft
Suppressed whispers of distant songs of love.
But have the waters changed with time, have not
Those others lost themselves in some remote
And stormy ocean, knowing not whose tears
Have fed their stream? But still the stream is here,
The moon, the waves, the brooding April night,
And stars—and I, alone once more—and through
The moonlit silent darkness, there rings no more
A distant song; there floats no more a cloud
Of rose; no breezes speak of rising sun ...
And the dark waves keep flowing and flowing on,
And there I stand—alone, alone—to dream
Of moon, and waves, and brooding April night.





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