O City, Look The Eastward Way Poem by Enid Derham

O City, Look The Eastward Way

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O CITY, look the Eastward way!
Beyond thy roofs of shadowy red and grey
Floats like a lily on the airy stream,
Radiant and vast, a cloud,
Around whose billowy head
Splendour from out the glooming West is shed
As if it were not ever to take flight,—
And on its edge of gleam
In the clear blue of waning afternoon,
Faint as a spirit slipping from the shroud,
Faint, and yet gathering light,
The Moon.

O city, dream and pray!
This is thy evensong at close of day.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ratnakar Mandlik 11 October 2016

O city, dream and pray! This is thy evensong at close of day. Nice conceptualization. Thanks for sharing.

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Enid Derham

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Melbourne / Australia
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