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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE NAMELESS DOON [OR, RUIN], by WILLIAM LARMINIE Poet's Biography First Line: Who were the builders? Question not the silence Last Line: No faintest sigh of story lisps the wave. Subject(s): Ruins | |||
WHO were the builders? Question not the silence That settles on the lake for evermore, Save when the sea-bird screams and to the islands The echo answers from the steep-cliffed shore. O half-remaining ruin, in the lore Of human life a gap shall all deplore Beholding thee; since thou art like the dead Found slain, no token to reveal the why, The name, the story. Some one murdered We know, we guess; and gazing upon thee, And, filled by thy long silence of reply, We guess some garnered sheaf of tragedy; -- Of tribe or nation slain so utterly That even their ghosts are dead, and on their grave Springeth no bloom of legend in its wildness; And age by age weak washing round the islands No faintest sigh of story lisps the wave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 6. RUINS OF PAESTUM by SARA TEASDALE WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG' by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE RAVAGED VILLA by HERMAN MELVILLE HYMN AMONG THE RUINS by OCTAVIO PAZ OZYMANDIAS by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN RUINS OF CORINTH by ANTIPATER OF SIDON CONSOLATION by WILLIAM LARMINIE |
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