Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A GARRET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poet's Biography First Line: In deep twilight / the rain taps upon the skylight Last Line: Hath but now disclosed the shadowy flood of death. Subject(s): Grief; Success; Writing & Writers; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
In deep twilight The rain taps upon the skylight, Beating, beating, like a deathless pulse of pain: From the writing His tired hands are aye inditing He looks upward to the window dulled with rain, And he muses On the fame that still refuses To attend him as he plies life's hungry trade, On the rapture Of the dreams he cannot capture, On the hopes that cheat, the loves that still evade. Is he dreaming? No, 'tis but a slumber seeming, But the shadow of a dream that vanisheth; For the drifting Misty veil of sleep uplifting Hath but now disclosed the shadowy flood of death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR |
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