Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WORDS, by KATHERINE SEDGWICK


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First Line: Words are coverings. - weddings
Last Line: From her bleak caverns to the sky.
Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary


Words are coverings. -- Weddings
Are white. Black is for sorrow's tears,
While Magdalen wears a flaming red
Mantle to hide her spoiling wares.

I have seen forensic palaces
Without a beam of truth, raised high,
While mummers called the passers by
With speech that lured like painted faces.

There was a time when words were things,
Coined from the mint of the first man's heart,
When need forced his savage lips apart
In a sound, with the shape of his sufferings.

He was the pain, that lay ice-curled
In primal silence -- till the world
Released him -- her unceasing cry
From her bleak caverns to the sky.





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