Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UPON SEEING NOTES MADE BY A POET, by MILDRED W. CLARK First Line: I feel the gentle dimness of a light Last Line: And show them, stumbling, how to lift, to lift! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form) | ||||||||
I feel the gentle dimness of a light Which reached the shadowed heart and left it gay, That made bright flowers grow in homely clay, And brushed the rolling, film-swept clouds in flight. I see the fleeing word, which erudite Had scorned, upraised to grandeur, thus to flay The careless handlers of such precious play Of syllable and thought, where he found height. Ah, quiet hand that touched uncolored mood And roused it to a conflagration, burned By deep and tensest feeling, may your swift And steadied words, like sharp-cut gems, subdued, When caught by light, inspire the blind, unlearned, And show them, stumbling, how to lift, to lift! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WAS THAT REALLY A SONNET? by ANSELM HOLLO RETICENT SONNET by ANNE CARSON SONNET: OF THREE GIRLS AND OF THEIR TALK by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO WHAT THE SONNET IS by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HOUSE OF LIFE: THE SONNET (INTRODUCTION) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI NEW JERSEY by MILDRED W. CLARK |
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