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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DARKNESS WAS OVERTRACED ON EVERY FACE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Despair; Epidemics | |||
Darkness was overtraced on every face, āàAround clouded with storm and ominous gloom; In hut or hall smiled out no resting-place; āàThere was no resting-place but one-the tomb! All our hearths were the mansions of distress, āàAnd no one laughed, and none seemed free from care; Our children felt their fathers' wretchedness; āàOur homes, one, all were shadowed with despair: It was not fear that made the land so sad. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...REVELRY OF THE DYING by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING THE BLUE-FLY by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES OEDIPUS REX [TYRANNUS][OR, OEDIPUS THE KING]: IN TIME OF PESTILENCE by SOPHOCLES STATE OF THE UNION: 20. AN EPIDEMIC WITHOUT A NAME by JOHN PEPPER CLARK BLUE-FLY by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES TO THE EDITORS FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S MOTHER, MARY ROSE MACINTYRE by DEENA LINETT FOR CHILDREN KILLED IN A SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC by RYOSA |
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