Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIGHT AFTER DARKNESS, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT Poet's Biography First Line: Once more the night, like some great dark drop-scene Last Line: The broken heralds of a doleful day. Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
ONCE more the Night like some great dark drop-scene Eclipsing horrors for a brief entr'acte Descends, lead-weighty. Now the space between, Fringed with the eager eyes of men, is racked By spark-tailed lights, curvetting far and high Swift smoke-flecked coursers, raking the black sky. And as each sinks in ashes grey, one more Rises to fall, and so through all the hours They strive like petty empires by the score, Each confident of its success and powers, And hovering at its zenith each will show Pale rigid faces, lying dead, below. There shall they lie, tainting the innocent air, Until the Dawn, deep veiled in mournful grey, Sadly and quietly shall lay them bare, The broken heralds of a doleful day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN HOME THOUGHTS IN [OR, FROM] LAVENTIE by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT |
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