New Challenge: Allusive
Literature and art constantly refer back to each other using allusions, and this month's prompts are inspired by allusions to literature, myth, art, and history.
The twilit hours turn silver fast; a stark
And fallow sky. And wroth, discordant rains:
Rage! Rage! Rend these airs, choke the measured dark,
And drown the dying dusk on these dim plains.
O frosted, wretched earth, thou selfsame earth
Holds also the girdled Doriath, in whose airs
A throaty lark did sing in music mirth.
How sweet his song without earthly compares,
Yet chills me now like dins of rain. This land
Of dross, barbs of fern; these winds untame
That die in groaning grass-- had I in hand
The fairest hemlock 'tis so much the same.
The fair is fair as dust: A house of frost
For a wounded shadow. Lúthien is lost.