Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHAT IS THE SONNET?, by MILAN E. HAWKINS


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WHAT IS THE SONNET?, by                    
First Line: It is quick, leaping change of northern light
Last Line: Beneath bright skies, beyond time's raging roar!
Subject(s): Prophecy & Prophets


It is quick, leaping change of Northern light;
The anxious mother's first-born's tiny cry;
Night's welkin -- stars; the heavenly kindled sky;
Sheer, icy mountain's far-flung, warning height;
All truthful living, which gives pow'r and might;
Conceptions of the sculptor that still lie
Within crude marble's depths; the chisel's eye
Awakened life reveals, with mystic sight.
It is pearl ocean-shells; the morning's blush,
Unblemished ruby for the white-souled bride;
Young fledgling warblers and the song of thrush;
Unconquered lives, despite earth's cruel pride;
The painter's skillful brush; the gloaming's hush,
With faiths and works of men, that long abide.

It is the sacred faith of love's desire;
The prismatic beauty of the opal's fire;
That prophesying flash within the dark
Portentous depths, against those who aspire
To find life's hidden source and vital spark;
Fair lilies and the Sharon-rose, that mark
Strewn pathways for the searchers, who inquire
Through templed trees, to hear the morning lark.
It is the lonely moan upon the lee;
The grating pebbles far along life's shore,
After wild, wrecking storm -- through every tree
The soughing wind that comes to some no more.
It is the tide, bearing our sails to sea,
Beneath bright skies, beyond time's raging roar!





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