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Set Chessmen
Is anyone familiar with this sonnet: “Chess”?
Here is the first stanza of a Petrachan sonnet entitled Chess. Does anyone recognize it or has anyone seen it before? Could you give me the title (if “Chess” is not it) the author and the source please?
When nightfall came the town’s nocturne wakes
Dark brilliance on the river; colors drive
And tremble as enormous shadows lift
Ed to his is place. The heart remakes
That peace in the blaze of day. Inside
Your room you are music, warmth and wine, the board
With chessmen set for play. They kept score
That begins a feud; then everyone is happy.
I am not cheating; I am looking for a cheater. I am a teacher and a student turned this in.
This is effin beautiful
“A Game Of Chess” by Gwen Harwood(1920-1995)
To John Brodie
Nightfall: the town’s chromatic nocturne wakes
dark brilliance on the river; colours drift
and tremble as enormous shadows lift
Orion to his place. The heart remarks
that peace torn in the blaze of day. Inside
your room are music, warmth and wine, the board
with chessmen set fopr play. The harpsichord
begins a fugue; delight is multiplied.
A game: the heart’s impossible ideal–
to choose among a host of paths, and know
that if the kingdom crumbles one can yield
and have the choice again. Abstract and real
joined in their trance of thought, two players show
the calm of gods above a troubled field.