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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ALCHEMY, by SARAH LITSEY
First Line: Ask me to remember and all that I could tell
Last Line: And the dawn came riding like a cavalcade of fear.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
First Line: Ask me to remember and all that I could tell
Last Line: And the dawn came riding like a cavalcade of fear.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
Ask me to remember and all that I could tell
Would be of night coming and how the dark fell
Silently and softly and the world seemed older
And a hill went to sleep with the moon on its shoulder.
Ask me if I loved you and I could only say,
There were three tall trees and the river lay
Dead and above us was a star-pricked patch of sky,
And once I was awakened by a night thing's cry.
I've long ago forgotten how the story goes,
But I still remember sharply how a cold wind rose
And the stars fled trembling and the moon dropped near
And the dawn came riding like a cavalcade of fear.
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