Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MEDITATION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON


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First Line: I know a place of barren heaped-up rocks
Last Line: Back to the twinkling harbour lights of home.
Subject(s): Meditation


I KNOW a place of barren heaped-up rocks
Where Ocean blossoms in white flowers of foam,
And overhead the ever-circling gulls
Still wheel and whirl like monstrous wind-tossed leaves.
Here I was wont to pass the twilight hour,
And from the land enswathed in ghostly mist
Came musically the lowing of the herds;
Here I would sit and watch the shadows weave
Their veils of magic over sea and land,
And dream awhile ... until I heard the chimes
With silver whisper thread the listening gloom,
Then would I rise and slowly pass my way
Through silent fields and narrow echoing town,
Back to the twinkling harbour lights of home.





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