Defeat
Defeat
Original Text
Constance Davies-Woodrow, The Captive Gypsy
(Toronto: Balk-Preston, 1928): 30. PS 8545 O62C3
Robarts Library
1Between the grey monotony of sky
2 And darker grey monotony of sea
3A solitary seagull passes by,
4 Beating the air, and screaming plaintively.
5And even so -- between grey yesterdays,
6 Before your coming waked my dreaming heart,
7And darker grey to-morrows, when our ways
8 Must lie forever half a world apart --
9I take my way on wings that feebly beat
10 Against the adverse winds of circumstance,
11My heart, rebellious at this last defeat,
12 Screaming defiance at the gods of chance.
Publication Start Year
1928
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
2002
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