Mythology & Folklore
Tristram and Isolt
From The Poems of Madison Cawein (1907)
Mythology & Folklore
Night, and vast caverns of rock and of iron:
Voices like water, and voices like wind:
Horror, and tempests of hail that environ
Shapes and the shadows of two who have sinned.
Wan on the whirlwind, in loathing uplifting
Faces that loved once, forever they go,
Tristram and Isolt, the lovers, go drifting,
The simmer and laughter of Hell below.
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Cawein, Madison. “Tristram and Isolt.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cawein/727/.
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Cawein, Madison. “Tristram and Isolt.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cawein/727/.
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