Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VEILS OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography First Line: Three veils of silence, summer draws apace Last Line: And ache of inarticulate desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Sea; Silence; Summer; Ocean | ||||||||
Three veils of Silence, Summer draws apace. The noon-tide Peace that broods on hill and dale, That passes o'er the sea and leaves no trace, That sleeps in the moveless clouds' moveless trail: The wave of colour deepening day by day, The yellow grown to purple on the leas, Blue within there beyond the dusky ways; A green-gloom dusk within the grass-green trees. The third veil no man sees. She weaves it where Beneath the fret and fume tired hearts aspire And long for some divine impossible air. Out of Man's heart she weaves this veil of Rest -- Sweet anodyne for all the feverish quest And ache of inarticulate Desire. | 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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