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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILDE HAROLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: Slow and weary, moves a dreary
Last Line: Gainst the bark the waves dash high.
Subject(s): Death; Faces; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The
First Line: Slow and weary, moves a dreary
Last Line: Gainst the bark the waves dash high.
Subject(s): Death; Faces; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The
SLOW and weary, moves a dreary
Stout black bark the stream along;
Visors wearing, all-uncaring,
Funeral mutes the benches throng.
'Mongst them dumbly, with his comely
Face upturn'd, the dead bard lies;
Living seeming, toward the beaming
Light of heaven still turn his eyes.
From the water, like a daughter
Of the stream's voice, comes a sigh,
And with wailing unavailing
'Gainst the bark the waves dash high.
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