Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FOG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poet's Biography First Line: It lies dim and cold on the face of the mould Last Line: And the words die away in my song. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Funerals; Nature; Weather; Dead, The; Haze; Burials | ||||||||
IT lies dim and cold on the face of the mould, Like a smile on the lips of the dead. As chill and as white, as dense and as light As the winding-sheet laid in the still of the night Over the funeral bed. No pulse seems to throb, no voice dares to sob Beneath the grey calm of the cloud. A hush holds the air with pale bands of despair, Too close to be pierced by a curse or a prayer The hush of a soul in its shroud. No stars in the sky; no lights low or high; No laughter; no weeping; no breath; No murmur, no sound in the whole world around, But a silence that lies blank and chill on the ground, Like the visible presence of Death. No murmur. No sound. Only white on the ground There creeps the thin silence along Creeps near and more near,oh, so dim! oh, so drear! Till I shiver, as one who has stood by a bier, And the words die away in my song. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUNERAL SERMON by ANDREW HUDGINS RETURN FROM DELHI by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE SCATTERING OF EVAN JONES'S ASHES by GALWAY KINNELL BROWNING'S FUNERAL by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID by ROBERT LOWELL MY FATHER'S BODY by WILLIAM MATTHEWS A BIRTHDAY SONG by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD |
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