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Poem by James Joyce


Alone


The noon’s greygolden meshes make
All night a veil,
The shorelamps in the sleeping lake
Laburnum tendrils trail. 

The sly reeds whisper to the night
A name-- her name-
And all my soul is a delight,
A swoon of shame.



James Joyce


James Joyce's other poems:
  1. Chamber Music. 10. Bright Cap and Streamers
  2. Chamber Music. 13. Go Seek Her Out All Courteously
  3. Chamber Music. 25. Lightly Come or Lightly Go
  4. Chamber Music. 11. Bid Adieu, Adieu, Adieu
  5. Chamber Music. 7. My Love Is in a Light Attire


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Sydney Dobell Alone ("There came to me softly a small wind from the sea")
  • Lewis Morris Alone ("WHAT shall it profit a man")
  • Edgar Poe Alone ("From childhood's hour I have not been")
  • Ambrose Bierce Alone ("IN contact, lo! the flint and steel")
  • Edward Sill Alone ("STILL earth turns and pulses stir")
  • Bruce Kiskaddon Alone ("The hills git awful quiet, when you have to camp alone")
  • Sara Teasdale Alone ("I am alone, in spite of love")
  • Celia Thaxter Alone ("THE lilies clustered fair and tall")

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