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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD BED, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Streaming beneath the eaves, the sunset light
Last Line: Upon the bed of bridal, birth and death.
Subject(s): Beds
First Line: Streaming beneath the eaves, the sunset light
Last Line: Upon the bed of bridal, birth and death.
Subject(s): Beds
Streaming beneath the eaves, the sunset light
Turns the white walls and ceiling to pure gold,
And gold, the quilt and pillows on the old
Fourposter bed -- all day a cold drift-white --
As if, in a gold casket glistering bright,
The gleam of winter sunshine sought to hold
The sleeping child safe from the dark and cold
And creeping shadows of the coming night.
Slowly it fades: and stealing through the gloom
Home-coming shadows throng the quiet room,
Grey ghosts that move unrustling, without breath,
To their familiar rest, and closer creep
About the little dreamless child asleep
Upon the bed of bridal, birth and death.
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