Exordium

George Cabot Lodge 1873 (Boston) – 1909 (Massachusetts)



Speak! said my soul, be stern and adequate;
The sunset falls from Heaven, the year is late,
Love waits with fallen tresses at thy gate
   And mourns for perished days.
Speak! in the rigor of thy fate and mine,
Ere these scant, dying days, bright-lipped with wine,
All one by one depart, resigned, divine,
   Through desert, autumn ways.

Speak! thou art lonely in thy chilly mind,
With all this desperate solitude of wind,
The solitude of tears that make thee blind,
   Of wild and causeless tears.
Speak! thou hast need of me, heart, hand and head,
Speak, if it be an echo of thy dread,
A dirge of hope, of young illusions dead --
   Perchance God hears!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAABCCCB DDDXEEEX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 662
Words 119
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8

George Cabot Lodge

George Cabot "Bay" Lodge, was an American poet of the late 19th and early-20th century. more…

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