Do you remember the two old people we passed on the road to Kerity, Resting their sack on the stones, by the drenched wayside, Looking at us with their lightless eyes through the driving rain, and then out again To the rocks, and the long white line of the tide: Frozen ghosts that were children once, husband and wife, father and mother, Looking at us with those frozen eyes; have you ever seen anything quite so chilled or so old? But we - with our arms about each other, We did not feel the cold! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DON JUAN'S SONG by ISAAC ROSENBERG GREEN SYMPHONY by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER THE SEA GYPSY [OR GIPSY] by RICHARD HOVEY FOR [OR TO] THOSE WHO FAIL by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER TO A CAT by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE RUNNER WITH THE LOTS by LEONIE ADAMS |