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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTHER EARTH, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the star-dust and the ether-flaw Last Line: To ease thine agony. Subject(s): Earth; World | |||
Beyond the star-dust and the ether-flaw Where truth first folds her wings I reached the empty quiet, whence I saw The little sum of things. An atom in a wreath of fiery smoke Slow curling through that dark, The faint Earth quivered, as if tears would choke The glimmer of its spark. The earnest silence of the heavens' war Mine eyes could not abide, And throbbing to the pulses of my star The heart within me cried: O Mother, from thy womb my body came, Thy labour was my birth, My spirit's fire was kindled at thy flame, Thine am I, Mother Earth! What do I here, an augur of thy death, Who live but by thy life? Oh, I will haste, and pay my debt of breath, A weapon in thy strife! I will take water to the drooping fern, Unyoke the sweating steers, The swords of brothers from their bosoms turn, And dry thy children's tears. I know, dear Mother, that thine hour is nigh; My service saves not thee: But blessed are thy children, if they die To ease thine agony. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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