Sheep
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)
LIKE the slow thunder of long seas on the height
Where God has set no sea,
Voices of folded sheep in the quiet of night
Came on the wind to me.
Like the low murmur of full tide on a beach
Where tide shall never roll,
They sent their mournful, inarticulate speech
Heavily on my soul.
Past is my sorrow, the night past, and the morn
Bright on her golden sills.
Only the hill-fold voices drowsily scorn
The comfort of the hills.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 422 |
Words | 84 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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