Distant Rainfall

Robinson Jeffers 1887 (Allegheny) – 1962 (Carmel-by-the-Sea)



Like mourning women veiled to the feet
Tall slender rainstorms walk slowly against gray cloud along the
far verge.
The ocean is green where the river empties,
Dull gray between the points of the headlands, purple where
the women walk.
What do they want? Whom are they mourning?
What hero's dust in the urn between the two hands hidden in
the veil?
Titaness after Titaness proudly
Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost
battle's beauty.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIBJB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 454
Words 80
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

Robinson Jeffers

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