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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNSET AT MALINMORE, by WILLIAM LARMINIE Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet are the treeless hills Last Line: Smite the night's heart with trembling. | |||
QUIET are the treeless hills Clad with short coarse grass and heather; Around them the sky's wide circle And beneath them the silent sea. And around the sky's wide circle are clouds of fire, Towers of flaming snow; And the plain of the gleaming sea reflects the glitter In lonely patches of calm. Wild, fiery-splendid sky! Silent protest of day against night's dark domination, Over thy splendour already hangeth the omen of gloom. And the sea inscrutable rests, vast level of flickering darkness, Watching the sunset go: All day to the sky it has spoken and in brightness answered to brightness, Now will it speak to the night. If there is gloom in the heaven Shall not the gloom of hell be twice intense? Therefore ye faces rise! Ye that within the sunless depths have dwellings, And by the deeper terror of your eyes Smite the night's heart with trembling. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAND, SELECTION by WILLIAM LARMINIE THE NAMELESS DOON [OR, RUIN] by WILLIAM LARMINIE RHYTHM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE LATEST DECALOGUE by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH A CHRISTMAS CAROL by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE PLUTARCH by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS MY HIDING PLACE AND ME by BARBARA BROOKS BIXLEY SONG BY AN OLD SHEPHERD by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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