Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HARVEST OF TIME, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER


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First Line: Time winnows beauty with a fiery wind
Last Line: O, speed the blown chaff down the smoking sky!
Subject(s): Time


Time winnows beauty with a fiery wind,
Driving the dead chaff from the living grain.
Some day there will be golden sheaves to bind;
There will be wonder in the world again.
There will be lonely phrases born to power,
There will be words immortal and profound;
Though no man knows the coming of the hour,
And no man knows the sower or the ground.

It may be even now the ranging earth
Lifting to glory some forgotten land
Feels there deep beauty quickening to birth,
Sprung from the sowing of a hidden hand.
Beauty endures though towering empires die.
O, speed the blown chaff down the smoking sky!





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