Strong saturation of sea! O widely flown,. Far winds of fall, your litanies of pain Moan like the music of a wild refrain Heard thro' the midnight of a feudal town! Young night is lipped with jasper where the blown Burden of evening lights intensely wane, And, shuddering seaward from the tawny plain, Vague fold on fold the enormous dark comes down. Gusty and fervid as the sleepless sea The passionate fancies of a formless fear Spring in my nervous brain like monstrous flowers; The night, the wind-chant work their will of me, And thoughts like death-bells echoing far and near, Toll for life's lost, irrevocable hours. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LUNCH AT A CLUB by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET HEGIRA by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DAT GAL O' MINE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS PEACE ON EARTH by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON TWILIGHT SONG by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON |