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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE THREE PHILOSOPHICAL POETS, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling untempered from the ethereal blue Last Line: And streams a mansion for the soul prepare. Subject(s): Philosophy & Philosophers; Poetry & Poets | |||
Falling untempered from the ethereal blue, The light of truth might scorch the eyes, and blind. Therefore these giant oaks their branches twined And betwixt earth and heaven the lattice drew Of their green labyrinth. Rare stars shone through, Low, large, and mild. The infinite, confined, Suffered the measure of the pensive mind, And what the heart contrived it counted true. Scant is that covert now in the merciless glare, Stripped all those leafy arches, riven that dome. Unhappy laggard, he whose nest was there. Some yet untrodden forest be my home, Where patient time and woven light and air And streams a mansion for the soul prepare. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB |
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