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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEATH OF DAWN, by GERTRUDE RATHBUN
First Line: Morning light on a quivering leaf
Last Line: The cold, gray shadow, hate.
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Shadows; Silence; Snow; Dead, The
First Line: Morning light on a quivering leaf
Last Line: The cold, gray shadow, hate.
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Shadows; Silence; Snow; Dead, The
Morning light on a quivering leaf,
Incense of earth with dew,
Pendant stars of lilac white
Open to skies of blue.
Dashes of color and song of birds,
Breezes that bring a caress
Dawn peeps over the eastern hills,
Laughing with happiness.
Out by the road that leads to the world,
Loiters a loathsome mist,
Upward it crawls from a gloomy fen,
Never by sunlight kissed;
Spreading and spreading, a shadow gray,
Silent the rollicking notes,
Cruel winds down from drear fields of snow,
Choke the wet, flowery throats.
Dawn's light footsteps weary grow,
Lifeless she sinks at day's gate,
For the bitter wind is enmity,
The cold, gray shadow, hate.
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