Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING IN NORTH CAROLINA (1938), by RUTH HANNAS First Line: Summer dead is best put out of sight Last Line: In disembodied dream. Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
Summer dead is best put out of sight, Fierce winters are kindest. This gold that haunts a greening tree Is insult at its blindest. This forest died severally, Preserving nationality, The dogwood, maple, oak Asserted separate vitality. Colors tuned to accurate pitch Sounded the last dirge, Blended in willingness Of full-throated purge. The dead cannot bury themselves Nor drop six feet to earth -- From such handicap divines This gross obscenity of birth. Water lies limp in the ravine; No fierce awakening from ice Thrills through tired veins Born once but never twice. This crowding of the womb With life that cannot die -- This burden of past summers Predicates a why Of all classic beauties Annihilation is supreme -- Winter that consumes itself In disembodied dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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