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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MARCH AFTERNOON, by LYDIA LITTELL
First Line: The moon's a faint vignette of gray
Last Line: And would not come again.
Subject(s): March (month); Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: The moon's a faint vignette of gray
Last Line: And would not come again.
Subject(s): March (month); Solitude; Loneliness
The moon's a faint vignette of gray
Upon a pale blue field;
The far-off hills are phantom shaped
With features unrevealed;
The chary sun has in his cup
But wine enough to taste,
And shadow-fingers thin and cold
Are loosely interlaced.
The misty spaces stretch unknown
And measureless; the pall
Of silence lies in fold on fold
Profoundly over all.
There is in the incomparable
Remoteness of this hour
A spectral beauty on the world
As of a pale, strange flower,
But in the heart a loneliness
Too wan, too still for pain,
As if all spirit had withdrawn
And would not come again.
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