Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CLOUDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky Last Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky. Subject(s): Clouds; London | ||||||||
I WATCH the clouds that float along the sky. The city is stiff and grey, In desperate struggle death-locked and frozen, And between the angular, motionless, unbent facades Creak and groan the carts, painfully striving To crawl and push along forward -- for ever in vain. Yet above them move the clouds, free and unfrozen. I watch the clouds that drift along the sky. Through the fracas of life my body's borne and buffeted, Ever resisting impulse, held back yet pushed forward; But my soul watches alone, indifferent and un-changing, By that deep thought in which life and death are one: Which is to me as a lonely torch in the darkness, Consuming, creating its own illumination, Lawless, of all its laws its own fulfilment, Purposeless, of all purposes the creator, Imperishably dead. I watch the clouds that float along the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHARF ON THAMES-SIDE: WINTER DAWN by LAURENCE BINYON THE IDLER'S CALENDAR: MAY. THE LONDON SEASON by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A LONDON THOROUGHFARE, 2 A.M. by AMY LOWELL SPRING WIND IN LONDON by KATHERINE MANSFIELD A BALLAD OF WHITECHAPEL by ISAAC ROSENBERG LONDON, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE ARIZONA POEMS: 2. MEXICAN QUARTER by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER |
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