Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON GREAT SUGARLOAF, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE


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First Line: Where sugarloaf with bare and ruinous wedge
Last Line: Between two glooms, a transitory glow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A.
Subject(s): Great Sugarloaf (mountain), Ireland


Where Sugarloaf with bare and ruinous wedge
Cleaves the grey air to view the darkening sea,
We stood on high, and heard the north wind flee,
Through clouds storm-heavy fallen from ledge to ledge.

Then sudden "Look!" we cried. The far black edge
Of south horizon oped in sunbright glee,
And a broad water shone, one moment free,
Ere darkness veiled again the wavering sedge.

Such is the Poet's inspiration, still
Too evanescent! coming but to go;
Such the great passions showing good in ill,

Quick brightnesses, love-lights, too, burnt low;
And such man's life, which flashes Heaven's will--
Between two glooms, a transitory glow.





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