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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESIGN FOR A STREAM-LINED SUNRISE, by MARY THERESE MADELEVA First Line: If you must draw mere beauty Last Line: Beyond potential beauty, beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Wolff, Mary Evaline | |||
If you must draw mere beauty, Subtend one third of the whole arc of heaven With a grey chord of cloud Stretched from the quick south east to the still dubious west. Edge all the chord with white, bright, mutable silver. Draw it on cloudlessness at daybreak, If you would draw mere beauty. But you cannot do this Because the artless air achieved this brief design for sunrise, Once and forever, Today, at dawn. And then this long line, cutting with sheer simplicity of silver The breathless, deep blue arc of the south Became, because of my beholding, Beyond potential beauty, beautiful. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW THINGS AND OLD; CHRISTMAS, 1941 by MARY THERESE MADELEVA NOVEMBER AFTERNOONS by MARY THERESE MADELEVA ON THIS CONDITION by MARY THERESE MADELEVA PEACE BY NIGHT by MARY THERESE MADELEVA PENELOPE by MARY THERESE MADELEVA SNOW STORM by MARY THERESE MADELEVA WARDROBE by MARY THERESE MADELEVA LITTLE FEET by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN FRAGMENT, ON THE BACK OF THE POET'S MS. OF CANTO I OF 'DON JUAN' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |
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