Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NEW WORLD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poet's Biography First Line: I who had sought afar from earth Last Line: And bright with burning gold. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Fantasy; World | ||||||||
I WHO had sought afar from earth The faery land to meet, Now find content within its girth And wonder nigh my feet. To-day a nearer love I choose And seek no distant sphere; For aureoled by faery dews The dear brown breasts appear. With rainbow radiance come and go The airy breaths of day; And eve is all a pearly glow With moonlit winds a-play. The lips of twilight burn my brow, The arms of night caress: Glimmer her white eyes drooping now With grave old tenderness. I close mine eyes from dream to be The diamond-rayed again, As in the ancient hours ere we Forgot ourselves to men. And all I thought of heaven before I find in earth below: A sunlight in the hidden core To dim the noonday glow. And with the earth my heart is glad, I move as one of old; With mists of silver I am clad And bright with burning gold. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON A SUMMER NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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