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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OF WOMEN: 1. STATION, by ALICE MONKS MEARS
First Line: Here stares like stones fall
Last Line: The posture of an ancient loneliness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Women; Loneliness
First Line: Here stares like stones fall
Last Line: The posture of an ancient loneliness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Women; Loneliness
Here stares like stones fall
in the glass grove of good-by,
startle the wary bird spirit just seen
to nest, fold into the eye.
Departure hurried, mean,
without heroic sky over! These could
resent, should they recall,
women of warriors who stood
wind at their backs on jutting shores
to watch the last flash of tiered oars;
of ships sailing, the far white wake. ...
Naive of dream, these nonetheless
now left, now pausing, take
the posture of an ancient loneliness.
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