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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HELEN KELLER, by JAMES THOMAS COTTON NOE Poet's Biography
First Line: She never sees the sun transmute to gold
Last Line: With symphonies beethoven never heard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton
Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Visually Handicapped
First Line: She never sees the sun transmute to gold
Last Line: With symphonies beethoven never heard.
Alternate Author Name(s): Noe, Cotton
Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Visually Handicapped
She never sees the sun transmute to gold
A cauldron of volcanic cumuli;
She never looks upon star-studded sky
When snows are deep and moonless nights are cold;
She never hears the bleat of waking fold,
The grackle chattering or the kildees cry,
As day bursts like a golden butterfly
The black cocoon in which it has been rolled.
But she has found the dial of the brain
That draws the music from the rolling spheres,
And fills the silent darkness of the years
With television eyes have sought in vain, --
With song beyond the voice of any bird,
With symphonies Beethoven never heard.
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