Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAMENT, by GUDMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON First Line: Snows cloaked Last Line: My hopes lay ashen and dead. Subject(s): Lament | ||||||||
SNOWS cloaked Mountain cliffs, and clinging Frosts assailed the shore. Seas smoked, Heavy ice-floes flinging With a muffled roar. Storms stroked The strand with buffets sore. And we sat by the bright hearth singing Of sunshine and love's sweet lore. The sun rode Ruddy to its pyre; Touched the moors with red. High glowed The evening clouds, and higher O'er the calm sea spread. Gold strowed Joy on the mountain's head. But in by the dark hearth-fire My hopes lay ashen and dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE ELEGY FOR WRIGHT & HUGO by NORMAN DUBIE ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE by NORMAN DUBIE THE ELEGY FOR INTEGRAL DOMAINS by NORMAN DUBIE BRAVURA LAMENT by DANIEL HALPERN THE UNPEOPLED, CONVENTIONAL ROSE-GARDEN' by KENNETH REXROTH BETWEEN TWO WARS by KENNETH REXROTH PEACE ON EARTH: PROLOGUE by GUDMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON |
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