Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DERELICT, by JOHN DRINKWATER


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First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas
Last Line: Shall time entomb.
Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity


THE cloudy peril of the seas,
The menace of mid-winter days,
May break the scented boughs of ease
And lock the lips of praise,
But every sea its harbour knows,
And every winter wakes to spring,
And every broken song the rose
Shall yet resing.

But comfortable love once spent
May not re-shape its broken trust,
Or find anew the old content,
Dishonoured in the dust;
No port awaits those tattered sails,
No sun rides high above that gloom,
Unchronicled those half-told tales
Shall time entomb.





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