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Poem by Alan Seeger


Thirty Sonnets. 2. Sonnet 2. Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways


Her courts are by the flux of flaming ways,
Between the rivers and the illumined sky
Whose fervid depths reverberate from on high
Fierce lustres mingled in a fiery haze.
They mark it inland; blithe and fair of face
Her suitors follow, guessing by the glare
Beyond the hilltops in the evening air
How bright the cressets at her portals blaze.
On the pure fronts Defeat ere many a day
Falls like the soot and dirt on city-snow;
There hopes deferred lie sunk in piteous seams.
Her paths are disillusion and decay,
With ruins piled and unapparent woe,
The graves of Beauty and the wreck of dreams.



Alan Seeger


Alan Seeger's other poems:
  1. Thirty Sonnets. 30. At the Tomb of Napoleon before the Elections in America--November, 1912
  2. Thirty Sonnets. 8. Sonnet 8. Oft as by chance, a little while apart
  3. Sonnet 9. Well, seeing I have no hope, then let us part
  4. Thirty Sonnets. 6. Sonnet 6. Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs
  5. Sonnet 5. Seeing you have not come with me, nor spent


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