Jessie Mackay Never Poems

  • 1.
    Like a black, enamoured King whispered low the thunder
    To the lights of Roslyn, terraced far asunder:
    Hovered low the sister cloud in wild, warm wonder.

    ...
  • 2.
    IN Ortygia the Dawn land the old gods dwell,
    And the silverâ??s yet a-quiver on the old wizard well
    By the milk-white walls of the Temple of the Moon,
    Where the Dawn Maids hallow the red godsâ?? tune,
    ...
  • 3.
    O the grey, grey company
       Of the pallid dawn!
    O the ghostly faces,
       Ashen-like and drawn!
    ...
  • 4.
    HEREâ??S to the home that was never, never ours!
    Toast it full and fairly when the winter lowers.
    Speak ye low, my merry men, sitting at your ease;
    Harken to the homeless Drift in the roaring seas!
    ...
  • 5.
    (1901)

    They played him home to the House of Stones
       All the way, all the way,
    ...
  • 6.
    Rona, Rona, sister olden,-
    Rona in the moon!
    You'll never break your prison golden,-
    Never, late or soon!
    ...
  • 7.
    I came to your town, my love,
       And you were away, away!
    I said "She is with the Queen's maidens:
       They tarry long at their play.
    ...
Total 7 Never Poems by Jessie Mackay

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