Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TIDE OF SORROW, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poet's Biography First Line: On the twilight-burnished hills I lie and long and gaze Last Line: What voice for the world of men? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
ON the twilightburnished hills I lie and long and gaze Where below the greylipped sands drink in the flowing tides, Drink, and fade and disappear: interpreting their ways A seer in my heart abides. Once the diamond dancing daywaves laved thy thirsty lips: Now they drink the dusky nighttide running cold and fleet, Drink, and as the chilly brilliance o'er their pallor slips They fade in the touch they meet. Wave on wave of pain where leaped of old the billowy joys: Hush and still thee now unmoved to drink the bitter sea, Drink with equal heart: be brave; and life with laughing voice And death will be one for thee. Ere my mortal days pass by and life in the world be done, Oh, to know what world shall rise within the spirit's ken When it grows into the peace where light and dark are one! What voice for the world of men? | 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 A SUMMER NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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