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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BELLS OF SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate
Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate
Last Line: From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bells; Drowning; Goddesses & Gods; Lament; Mythology; Solitude; Loneliness
It is not only when the sea is dark and chill and desolate
I hear the singing of the queen who lives beneath the ocean:
Oft have I heard her chanting voice when noon swings wide his golden gate,
Or when the moonshine fills the wave with snow-white mazy motion.
And some day will it hap to me, when the black waves are leaping,
Or when within the breathless green I see her shell-strewn door,
The fatal bells will lure me where my seadrown'd death lies sleeping
Beneath the slow white hands of her who rules the sunken shore.
For in my heart I hear the bells that ring their fatal beauty,
The wild, remote, uncertain bells that chant their dim to-morrow;
The lonely bells of sorrow, the bells of fatal beauty,
From lonely heights within my heart tolling their lonely sorrow.
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