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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POWER OF ART, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not human art, but living gods alone Last Line: The sacred past that should not pass away. Subject(s): Art & Artists | |||
Not human art, but living gods alone Can fashion beauties that by changing live, -- Her buds to spring, his fruits to autumn give, To earth her fountains in her heart of stone; But these in their begetting are o'erthrown, Nor may the sentenced minutes find reprieve; And summer in the blush of joy must grieve To shed his flaunting crown of petals blown. We to our works may not impart our breath, Nor them with shifting light of life array; We show but what one happy moment saith; Yet may our hands immortalize the day When life was sweet, and save from utter death The sacred past that should not pass away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD AND THE NEW MASTERS by RANDALL JARRELL TO A YOUNG ARTIST by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS ART VS. TRADE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE POET VISITS THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS by MARY OLIVER ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION by JOHN CIARDI |
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