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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DARK CLOUD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: On a white horse she goes
Last Line: Making a horror of time.
Subject(s): Children; Horseback Riding; Time; Childhood
First Line: On a white horse she goes
Last Line: Making a horror of time.
Subject(s): Children; Horseback Riding; Time; Childhood
ON a white horse she goes
All glad and green and gay,
Half timid and half bold,
As a child at play
Who knows she's watched and shows
Childhood's wandering sway.
She is like a bright imp riding
A butterfly on the wind,
Wanton and uncertain,
Being happy and blind;
Yet in her delight, tears hiding,
Fears crouched in her mind.
And all is so confused
As April sun with cloud
That sables all the sky,
The white is a black shroud.
She droops, as shaken and bruised,
No more gay or proud;
The white horse wears a pall,
The fields are gray with rime.
So startling, so sullen,
Night blots the day's prime.
On bright thoughts dark wings fall
Making a horror of Time.
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