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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEDITATION ON SAVIORS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poet's Biography
First Line: When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water,
Last Line: Shine the sun black; the trap in which it is better to catch the / inhuman god than the hunter's own
Subject(s): Oedipus; Jesus Christ; Buddhism; Prophecy & Prophets; Buddha; Buddhists
First Line: When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water,
Last Line: Shine the sun black; the trap in which it is better to catch the / inhuman god than the hunter's own
Subject(s): Oedipus; Jesus Christ; Buddhism; Prophecy & Prophets; Buddha; Buddhists
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