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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MELANCHOLIA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: In the cold starlight, on the barren beach
Last Line: Glittering magnificently unperturbed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection
First Line: In the cold starlight, on the barren beach
Last Line: Glittering magnificently unperturbed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Melancholy; Dejection
IN the cold starlight, on the barren beach,
Where to the stones the rent sea-tresses clave,
I heard the long hiss of the backward wave
Down the steep shingle, and the hollow speech
Of murmurous cavern-lips, nor other breach
Of ancient silence. None was with me, save
Thoughts that were neither glad nor sweet nor brave,
But restless comrades, each the foe of each.
And I beheld the waters in their might
Writhe as a dragon by some great spell curbed
And foiled; and one lone sail; and over me
The everlasting taciturnity;
The august, inhospitable, inhuman night,
Glittering magnificently unperturbed.
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