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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 CENTENNIAL MEDITATION OF COLUMBIA by SIDNEY LANIER ON THE BIRTH OF HIS SON by SU SHIH MAIDEN'S CHOICE by CAROLYN M. BARBER LILIES: 12. 'YET I ENDURE.' by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) A DAISY FROM THE PARTHENON by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES |
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