ACROSS the lone floor of the rayless night One came to a door that was barred on light, A glimmer agleam through beckoning chink, As with lamp's still beam, as with taper's blink. And sore she sued their shrine to win, From mirk and moan of the wild shut in, And fled the fear its menace bore With shrouding of shadow evermore. So out of the dark, as it breathed its dread, Shrill crying, she knocked with a hope ill-sped, For grim and stark that portal wide At her hand's touch mocked, and her prayer denied. Then sick at heart, that found not grace, She turned her again the night to face, As terror turns on swift-foot foes— And lo! the clear east all climbing rose. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUVENIR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WEIGHING THE BABY by ETHEL LYNN BEERS CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH THE BIRD OF PARADISE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON EPISTLE TO SIR ROBERT WALPOLE (1) by HENRY FIELDING THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM |