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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PENDULUM, by WILLIAM DALZIELL TRADER
First Line: Until you came my heart lay cold and merciless
Last Line: Because the bell is gone -- the clock is incomplete.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
First Line: Until you came my heart lay cold and merciless
Last Line: Because the bell is gone -- the clock is incomplete.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
Until you came my heart lay cold and merciless,
Beshredded by the world's unmitigated scorn,
Uncomprehending foreigner to selflessness;
Until you came my heart lay wounded and forlorn.
Your kind word struck an inner chord of sympathy
And roused within my soul a new desire to live,
To conquer that devitalizing lethargy,
To take from life her chaste and rare delights, to give.
Before the inundation of your love my heart
Was swept and finally engulfed within the tide
Which washed away the barnacles that strangled art
And all expression -- mollusks born of foolish pride.
But when you left you took my resurrected soul
And all my heart except the faint and muffled beat --
My heart a pendulum that cannot wake a toll
Because the bell is gone -- the clock is incomplete.
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