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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISTANT SONG, by HENRY SPIESS Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate and downcast air Last Line: Dwells? Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Parting | |||
A delicate and downcast air, Simple and soft as an avowal, An air of tenderness and farewell About me clings; A weary hope is weeping there, A memory I scarce can tell— For it is all the past That sings. It was fashioned in fair dreams Of old, bewitching twilights, When the heart, too often snared, Sought its ease In a happiness that flared: Nights of song and firefly gleams ... Perchance you remember, Marquise? Now the romance is done, Where are the maids who used to sing? Where are the perfumes that the wind Wakes? What of it all does the new day bring? No more than a sigh outspun; And my heart, just to hear it, Breaks. And yet the echo of that olden air, Across so many suns, so many snows, Revokes the cherished past's Far farewells: All flies, Marquise, everywhere; The dream fades, and the joy goes: What matter, if the memory Dwells? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L. by JUNE JORDAN WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA by JAMES JOYCE |
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