Poetry Corner

[ysabela]

From the guy who put the "goth" into gothic, I give you...

Darkness George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)  I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream,The bright sun was extinguish’d, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space,Rayless, and pathless; and the icy earthSwung blind and blackening in the moonless air        5Morn came and went-

Comments

[worldwonderer]

Hey, sorry you're feeling gloomy. This poem is way deep for my lightweight brain cells, but if this is what you're reading, no wonder you're depressed!

HUGS!! Read something hopeful -

[ysabela]

Oh, I've just been gloomy in general. I actually read this poem back in College. It popped back into my head after I listened to an old radio show from the '40's about a planet that had several suns and never knew darkness but once every so many hundreds of years when there would be an eclipse. Then, people would go mad from the darkness and the world would end. Pretty much the way Byron describes it in his poem. I kinda wonder if the person who wrote the radio play used it for inspiration.