Classic and Contemporary Poetry
KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK First Line: They list for me the things I can not know Last Line: What death shall mean, some sunny morn shall see. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Knowledge; Life; Dead, The; Belief; Creed | ||||||||
They list for me the things I can not know: Whence came the world? What Hand flung out the light Of yonder stars? How could a God of right Ordain for earth an ebbless tide of woe? Their word is true; I would not scorn their doubt Who press their questions of the how and why. But this I know: that from the star-strewn sky There comes to me a peace that puts to rout All brooding thoughts of dread, abiding death; And too I know, with every fragrant dawn, That Life is Lord; that, with the Winter gone, There cometh Spring, a great reviving Breath. It is enough that life means this to me; What death shall mean, some sunny Morn shall see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 4 by MARK JARMAN QUIA ABSURDUM by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET TO FORTUNE by LUCY AIKEN JONATHAN EDWARDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS by ROBERT LOWELL RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION by MINA LOY ABRAHAM LINCOLN by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK |
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