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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LYRIQUE (A MADONNA LUCCIOLA), by JOSEPH KLING
First Line: Warmth / and softness / of summer
Last Line: As a wind-swept quarry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The
First Line: Warmth / and softness / of summer
Last Line: As a wind-swept quarry.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The
Warmth
and softness
of summer—
gone!
Firefly, where is your glow? ...
In the still moon-shadows of summer-night
I forgot the red glare,
and horror,
and blood, and gall, and iron
of our world. ...
Now autumn-death
has come. ...
Firefly, where is your glow?
Hard and cold is the moonlight,
Black and cold its shadows,
And bleak my heart
As a wind-swept quarry.
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