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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT ON CURBAR EDGE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: No echo of man's life pursues my ears
Last Line: Tremendous silence, older than the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: No echo of man's life pursues my ears
Last Line: Tremendous silence, older than the world.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
NO echo of man's life pursues my ears;
Nothing disputes this Desolation's reign;
Change comes not, this dread temple to profane
Where time by aeons reckons, not by years.
Its patient form one crag, sole stranded, rears,
Type of whate'er is destined to remain
While you still host encamped on night's waste plain
Keeps armed watch, a million glittering spears.
Hushed are the wild and wing'd lives of the moor;
The sleeping sheep nestle 'neath ruined wall,
Or unhewn stones in random concourse hurled:
Solitude, sleepless, listens at Fate's door;
And there is built and 'stablisht over all,
Tremendous silence, older than the world.
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