Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE ECSTASY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn will be the time and the forest will be the place Last Line: Will stay upon the stone a long long while Subject(s): Happiness; Joy; Delight | ||||||||
Dawn will be the time and the forest will be the place the brook the stone in their arrest and flowing turning perpetually in the kind of grace that is simply a kind of knowing intensified around this present The woman's face halfsmiling against the stone will seal the force of the lordly surging flooding sun entering with her husbandman entering surging flooding and yet not seen and never to be told The brook its music almost lost or too serene for her to hear will in its small crook fold her on the stone Her strange halfsmile as if the earth had found its generic look will stay upon the stone a long long while. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our poem explanations - click here!Other Poems of Interest...THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS by KENNETH KOCH SO MUCH HAPPINESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE CROWD CONDITIONS by JOHN ASHBERY I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS by MARVIN BELL I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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