Crossword-Solution: MARGES 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The mountain crests riven by rock-slides roll thundering downward And wandering rivers, to rivulets shrunk, writhed no longer Familiar marges between.

The yellow irises that stood about its marges held a pale radiance, and were like butterflies enchanted into immobility.

But there is none--no knight in panoply, Nor Love, intrench'd in his strong steely coat: No little speck--no sail--no helper nigh, No sign--no whispering--no plash of boat:-- The distant shores show dimly and remote, Made of a deeper mist,--serene and gray,-- And slow and mute the cloudy shadows float Over the gloomy wave, and pass away, Chased by the silver beams that on their marges play.

Wild my wine-stained hand O'er tumultuous hair is lifted; While the flushed and Phallic orgies Whirl around me; and the marges Of the wood are torn and rifted With lascivious laugh and shout.

Yet it is well that memory should hold Some few pale rose-leaves plucked in bygone days, That still are sweet, despite those pains untold Which throng the marges of life's winding ways.