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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VISION, by LOLA RIDGE Poet's Biography
First Line: In the somnambulant dawn, in which your face
Last Line: Revengeful silence masks, but cannot quell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision
First Line: In the somnambulant dawn, in which your face
Last Line: Revengeful silence masks, but cannot quell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Faces; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Vision
In the somnambulant dawn, in which your face
Revealed a lesser darkness, like the bloom
Of snow on some inviolate high peak,
You were as a mountain moving. Through the cooled
Lineaments of stone -- whose tossing dust
The ultimate fingers of the light
Shall stroke to quietude -- from the lucent
Root, precipitate in endless fire,
A threading filament of flame evoked
The flame descendant ... and there swayed
In shining confluence, till the dark hill
Lifted, straining at its base, and all
The muted morning trembled to a song,
Revengeful silence masks, but cannot quell.
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