Mist
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
ON the mountain side they fashion,
Those rifting shreds of storm,
A figure of strange passion,
A winged and sworded form.
Majestic, wild, colossal,
With angry arm thrown high;
Those swaying shoulders jostle
The glory from the sky.
Then flows the happy hour.
That tyrant of the mist
Turns to a wavering tower
And melts in amethyst,
Foretelling thus the cycle
— O speed it, Holy Dove!—
When the Archangel Michael
Shall vanish into Love.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 431 |
Words | 78 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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