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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PREDECESSORS, ELSEWHERE, by CLARK MILLS First Line: All day we pass, confident with strong faces Last Line: Power to drag light and water from rivers and thunder? | |||
All day we pass, confident with strong faces, talking, leaning to one another, dispersing -- we traffic unendingly in lighted places of shock deeper and wakefuller than your cursing. You have ignored the singleness of blood, lost sight of one in many, forsaken your land like women who scatter before the troughing flood That rises and sags and foams against white sand. You are beyond the struggle, the dark series of forces balanced against us, casting us under; which of you, gauze-cocooned by distance, carries power to drag light and water from rivers and thunder? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PEACE (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DAUGHTERS OF JEPHTHA by LOUIS UNTERMEYER TOUJOURS AMOUR by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN GOD SAVE THE NATION! by THEODORE TILTON TWELVE SONNETS: 5. GLAD SEASONS by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) SONNET AGAINST THE DISPRAYSERS OF POETRIE by RICHARD BARNFIELD THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES CORYDON by LUCIUS MORRIS BEEBE THE FIRE WITHIN by ROBERT BRENDON CLEVEDON VERSES: 9. THE VOICES OF NATURE by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |
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