Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING STORM - NIPIGON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the beach, with low, quick, mournful sob Last Line: And so the day before its time is dead. Subject(s): Seashore; Storms; Beach; Coast; Shore | ||||||||
UPON the beach, with low, quick, mournful sob, The weary waters shudder to our feet; And far beyond the sunset's golden light, Forever brighter in its lessening span, Shares not the sadness of yon dark wood-wall, Where green and noiseless deeps of shadow rest In growing gloom 'twixt golden lake and sky. Fast fades the lessening day, and far beneath The tamarack shivers and the cedar's cone Uneasy sways, while fitful tremors stir The tattered livery of the ragged birch; And over all the arch of heaven is wild With tumbled clouds, where swift the lightning's lance Gleams ruby red and thunder-echoes roll; Far, far belowsweet as the dream of hope What time despair is nearestlies the lake. Fast comes the storm; spiked black with pattering rain, The darkened water gleams with bells of foam. Fast comes the storm, till over lake and sky, O'er yellow lake and ever-yellowing sky, Cruel and cold, the gray storm-twilights rest; And so the day before its time is dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEASHORE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS EASTERN LONG ISLAND by MARVIN BELL THE WIND IS BLOWING WEST by JOSEPH CERAVOLO IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF by LUCILLE CLIFTON GEOGRAPHY AS WARNING by MADELINE DEFREES POWER FAILURE by MADELINE DEFREES A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86 by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862] by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL |
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