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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLAINTIVE ECHOES, by SYLVIA ELDRIDGE
First Line: To-day my heart / is a haunted manor
Last Line: My hopeful thoughts!
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: To-day my heart / is a haunted manor
Last Line: My hopeful thoughts!
Subject(s): Old Age
I
To-day my heart
is a haunted manor
frightened at its own mournfulness.
Ghosts of dead memories
wander, disconsolate,
rattling behind them
enormous chains. ...
II.
To-day the sun
is bold and cynical;
its mocking rays
play roguishly
upon old women's eyes—
as on rusty lattices—
and with impish hilarity
mirrors their wrinkled faces. ...
III.
To-day,
my lips—
tightly-shut portals
to a sombre prison—
are guarding gloomily its
deluded inmates—
my hopeful thoughts!
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