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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONELINESS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography
First Line: I have known loneliness; - the mountain peak
Last Line: (oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness
First Line: I have known loneliness; - the mountain peak
Last Line: (oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more.
Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness
I HAVE known loneliness; -- the mountain peak
Scarred by the lightnings, and communicant
With searing suns and the pale lips of stars;
The gaping canyon riven deep in earth
As with titanic cleavage; the gray sea,
Sunless and sad, unswept by any sail;
The desert, void from marge to shimmering marge,
Only a vulture veering in the vault;
The roaring street, its jostling myriads,
And yet no face the fond face of a friend;
But none of these so poignantly has pierced
My heart, as has one small deserted room
Where she was wont to sit within whose eyes
Love was perpetual guest, -- the little room
(Oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more.
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