Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, QUITE HIGH ENOUGH OR LOW...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG


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QUITE HIGH ENOUGH OR LOW...., by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O singular perception of the light
Last Line: Whose merest drop or two a dungeon fills!
Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Love; Nightmares


O singular perception of the light
Which churns on high and burns oblivion,
Quite high enough or low to keep in sight
Each bit of life before its breath is gone;
Impersonal between the wrong and right,
Detecting even what they hide who run
Their dungeons deep and bury, fastened tight,
Some man who dared the freedom of the sun:

For then it runs a splinter down a hole,
Some mouse, perhaps, once had the teeth to gnaw,
And indicates the solitary soul,
Who dreams that light might yet prevail as law --
Who ponders on the love that light distills
Whose merest drop or two a dungeon fills!





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