Under the dark and piny steep
We watched the storm crash by:
We saw the bright brand leap and leap
Out of the shattered sky.

The elements were minist'ring
To make one mortal blest;
For, peal by peal, you did but cling
The closer to his breast.

(C) William Watson
04/12/2015


Best Poems of William Watson

• The Glimpse
• Estrangement
• Beethoven
• To Edward Clodd
• World Strangeness
• Autumn
• Life Without Health
• Felicity
• Columbus
• Liege
• A Sunset
• The Flight Of Youth
• Lachrymæ Musarum
• Our Men
• The Lute-player
• April
• Night
• The Dream Of Man
• The Great Misgiving