Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NO MORE THAN THE SLOW STREAM, by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN First Line: No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight Last Line: Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean. Subject(s): Change; Nature | ||||||||
No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight Lacing the swamp with intricate shining channels Patterned by wind and the dipping tall marsh grasses: No more the mica glint in the sliding water The bright-winged flies and the muskrat gone like a shadow No more the curved trout breaking concentric silver: Now the basalt cliffs and the yellow foam in the eddies Now the strong brown water boiling deeply from under Now the log abutment left where the bridge has fallen: O the slow stream lovely, lovely no more in sunlight: The flotsam of quiet lives turned over and over, The dark destructive flood; and the plan the promise Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN FROZEN FIRE by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN |
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