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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DUNMORE, by CHARLES MALAM
First Line: It is midnight. And the mountains that all day
Last Line: Effortless rising. And the tall reeds sigh.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: It is midnight. And the mountains that all day
Last Line: Effortless rising. And the tall reeds sigh.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
It is midnight. And the mountains that all day
Have held a blazing sky, rigid and fierce
In anger, high from earth, have put away
Their labor now, and sleep.
The moon is full where stars sharp-pointed pierce
Blue space. The young frogs cheep.
Vermont, my earth, if I might singing break
The warm, thick silence where your man-gods lie
Under the moon, if I might stir the lake
Of time—a ripple only—
Some other singer might arouse the sky
And so make God less lonely. ...
But now there is but mystery and dusk
And a few stars. Upon the farther shore
The shadows crouch. The frogs have a strange husk
Thus piping. And the cry
A sudden voice makes, calling, is a roar
Breaking the night one moment open wide—
Until the silence closes like a tide
Effortless rising. And the tall reeds sigh.
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