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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INNOCENCE (1), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me be always one with earth Last Line: Earth, bid your lovers rise from me! Subject(s): Innocence | |||
LET me be always one with earth Who bade her music through me run, Who through my veins poured singing mirth, Made me a dancer in her sun! Out of her living dust she made, -- The dust that once was leaves and trees; Grey dust of roses long decayed, Still warm with life of birds and bees; The dust of grass, the dust of clover, High forests that have long been dead, And dust of many a laughing lover, Whose songs are running in my head. . . All that earth has been, all she is, Her musics and her ecstasies, Cold winter rains, warm rains of spring, And the slow sun that makes her sing, -- I know them all, all earth's in me, I am earth's child, and I am earth; At one with her in grief and glee, I dream, with her, through death and birth. While I am living, give me speech Unconscious as the song of birds, So I may sing earth's praise, and teach Her beauty, though in broken words; When I am dead, let leaf and bough, And small grass, and anemone, Have this sweet life that I have now: Earth, bid your lovers rise from me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HORATIAN VIRTUE by ANTHONY HECHT MONOLOGUE BEFORE AN INNOCENT BEING PRISONED IN A TREE by MARY KINZIE THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS by KIZER. CAROLYN THE LANDLADY OF THE WHINTON INN TELLS A STORY by AMY LOWELL THE SUBCULTURE OF THE WRONGLY ACCUSED by THYLIAS MOSS |
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