George Sterling Sky Poems
- 1. The Last Days
The russet leaves of the sycamore
Lie at last on the valley floor-
By the autumn wind swept to and fro
Like ghosts in a tale of long ago.
... - 2. The Dust Dethroned
Sargon is dust, Semiramis a clod!
In crypts profaned the moon at midnight peers
The owl upon the Sphinx hoots in her ears,
And scant and sear the desert grasses nod
... - 3. The Black Vulture
Aloof within the day's enormous dome,
He holds unshared the silence of the sky.
Far down his bleak, relentless eyes descry
The eagle's empire and the falcon's home-
... - 4. The Ashes In The Sea
Whither, with blue and pleading eyes,-
Whither, with cheeks that held the light
Of winter's dawn in cloudless skies,
Evadne, was thy flight?
... - 5. Omnium Exeunt In Mysterium
The stranger in my gates-lo! that am I,
And what my land of birth I do not know,
Nor yet the hidden land to which I go.
One may be lord of many ere he die,
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