Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE UNLIGHTED HOUSE, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poet's Biography First Line: Love came to the unlighted house Last Line: Love came to the unlighted house. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Love; Waiting | ||||||||
LOVE came to the Unlighted House When all the world was dark and mute As some dust-covered, stringless lute; The bare trees shivered in the cold -- Poor trees that once knew flower and fruit; On either hand lay heaped the snow When silently as cravens go, Love came to the Unlighted House. Love came to the Unlighted House -- The windows stared like dead men's eyes Set wide in unexplained surprise Unkindled by the soul within; The wide door closed on secrecies; There came no sign to greet this guest When in that hour unloveliest Love came to the Unlighted House. Love came to the Unlighted House And raised the latch and entered there, And room on room was coldly bare; Cold ashes whitened on the hearth; The dust lay white on floor and stair; The silence threatened and appalled When thus, unwelcomed and uncalled, Love came to the Unlighted House. Love came to the Unlighted House -- A guest who tarried on his ways Too many nights, too many days -- A guest despaired of and forgot. Time hastens whilst a god delays. To empty rooms and desolate, Penitent, wistful, over-late, Love came to the Unlighted House. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALMOST AN ELEGY by JOSEPH BRODSKY THE AWAKENING by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY by CLARENCE MAJOR GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH LA VIE EN ROSE by KENNETH REXROTH A BOOK OF CELTIC VERSE (TO SEUMAS MACMANUS) by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON |
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