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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER NIGHT, by GOTTFRIED KELLER Poet's Biography First Line: Not a wing was beating in the night Last Line: In my mind it lingers evermore! | |||
Not a wing was beating in the night, Dazzling white and peaceful lay the snow, Not a cloud hung o'er the starry light, Frozen was the lake--all calm below. There a tree was growing from the deep, In the ice its crown was frozen fast; And the mermaid climbed the branches steep, Peering through the greenish ice at last. There I stood upon the glassy sheet-- Glass that barred me from that depth so dark; Well I could, beneath my very feet, All her white and wondrous beauty mark. At the hard, hard roof, from place to place, Still she gropes, from stitled anguish sore; I shall not forget that dusky face, In my mind it lingers evermore! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE EVENING by GOTTFRIED KELLER SUMMER NIGHT by GOTTFRIED KELLER A MINOR POET by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET SONNET; OXFORD, 1916 by GEORGE SANTAYANA COLD HANDS WARM HEART by KAREN SWENSON THE BALLAD OF CHRISTMAS by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS IN PRAISE OF ASTRAEA by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 7. 'SIENA MI FE' by EZRA POUND |
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