Mock daylight, phantom blue, the window stains,
Thrown by the street-lamp with a chilly glare.
Star-powdered blue above, essential air,
Blends with the lamplight on the frosty panes.
A swathe of mist obscures the minarets
Of winter poplars somnolent and slim,
Shells of the summer, stripped and ghostly dim,
Potential emerald caught in silver nets.
Red lights along the ridges of the hills
Wink warning to the eagles of the night
Reverberant-rumbling through the steeps of space
Above the cottage smoke that streams and spills
In foaming jets and curls of moonlit white
That with the fainter silver interlace.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 1954
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
Thrown by the street-lamp with a chilly glare.
Star-powdered blue above, essential air,
Blends with the lamplight on the frosty panes.
A swathe of mist obscures the minarets
Of winter poplars somnolent and slim,
Shells of the summer, stripped and ghostly dim,
Potential emerald caught in silver nets.
Red lights along the ridges of the hills
Wink warning to the eagles of the night
Reverberant-rumbling through the steeps of space
Above the cottage smoke that streams and spills
In foaming jets and curls of moonlit white
That with the fainter silver interlace.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 September 1954
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
