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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DARK REVERIE, by THIRZA J. MARTIN First Line: From this familiar house all brave delight Last Line: Here in the gloom, afraid to cry aloud. | |||
From this familiar house all brave delight Is gone, and in its place the evening brings Fast deepening shadows to the hearth. Here springs To mind a tale of lonely places white Beneath a moon incurious and bright; Now in the stillness, weird imaginings Have bound me prisoner, and phantom things Creep closer under cover of the night.... The night! whose sable envoys mark their prey With dusky calm, and with their subtle powers Contrive to lend the darkness as a shroud For evil which the day-light tears away. Come quickly morning, for my spirit cowers Here in the gloom, afraid to cry aloud. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON STALKING LEMURS by KAREN SWENSON YOUR MISSION by ELLEN M. HUNTINGTON GATES WORK by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN AGAINST QUARRELLING AND FIGHTING by ISAAC WATTS THE GLASSES AND THE BIBLE by ST. CLAIR ADAMS SONG OF THE FATHERLAND by ERNST MORITZ ARNDT EACH FLEETING DAY by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN |
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