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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OXFORD, by EDWARD HARRY WILLIAM MEYERSTEIN Poet's Biography
First Line: Rake up the fire: the bells that keep
Last Line: The morning trembles on the floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W.
Subject(s): Oxford University
First Line: Rake up the fire: the bells that keep
Last Line: The morning trembles on the floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyerstein, E. H. W.
Subject(s): Oxford University
RAKE up the fire: the bells that keep
Incessant guard from Magdalen tower
Have long since chimed the midnight hour,
While I was lying here asleep.
The flames have withered one by one,
And now the lonely embers stand
Like temples on Egyptian land
Illumined by the sinking sun.
Bright was the moon when I began,
But long has drifted from the skies;
Upon the hearth my volume lies,
Its pages like a tumbled fan.
The jet-black coals are wholly turned
Translucent orange; early day
Will find a film of crumbling grey,
Sole relic of the pile that burned.
Rake up the fire: how chill the breeze;
The dawn is creeping to the pane
Despite the web of gloom and rain
That mists her passage through the trees.
Put by the volume, dream no more
The hearth is ice; too late for bed;
The starlings chatter overhead,
The morning trembles on the floor.
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