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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as
Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement
First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as
Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement
Is it time to let the Hour rise and go forth as a hound loosed from the battle-
cars?
Is it time to let the Hour go forth, as the White Hound with the eyes of flame?
For if it be not time I would have this hour that is left to me under the stars
Wherein I may dream my dream again, and at the last whisper one name.
It is the name of one who was more fair than youth to the old, than life to the
young:
She was more fair than the first love of Angus the Beautiful, and though I were
blind
And deaf for a hundred ages I would see her, more fair than any poet has sung,
And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind.
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