Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG-IN-MY-HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography First Line: Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight Last Line: In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Hearts; Longing; Love; Sea; Singing & Singers; Wind; Ocean | ||||||||
Song-in-my-heart, my heart's sorrow, my delight, I hear a thin whistling as of a high arrow in flight Or when the wind suddenly leaps, leaving the grass snowy-white: Is it your voice, Song-in-my-heart, that calls to me to-night? It is dark here, my Love, my Pulse, my Heart, my Flame: Dark the night, dark with wind and cloud, the wind without aim Baffled and blind, the cloud low, broken, dragging, lame, And a stir in the darkness at the end of the room sighing my name, whispering my name! Is that the sea calling, or the hounds of the sea, or the wind's hounds Baffling billow on billow, wave into wave, with trampling sounds As of herds confusedly crowding gorges? or with leaps and bounds The narwhals in the polar seas crashing between ice-grown mounds? Great is that dark noise under the black north wind Out on the sea to-night: but still it isstill as the frost that bind The stark inland waters in green depths where icebergs grind In this noise of shaking storm in my heart and this blast sweeping my mind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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