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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DANTE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, mid the grasses of the field Last Line: Crowns the last century's closing year. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets | |||
WHO, mid the grasses of the field That spring beneath our careless feet First found the shining stems that yield The grains of life-sustaining wheat: Who first, upon the furrowed land, Strewed the bright grains to sprout, and grow, And ripen for the reaper's hand-- We know not, and we cannot know. But well we know the hand that brought And scattered, far as sight can reach, The seeds of free and living thought On the broad field of modern speech. Mid the white hills that round us lie, We cherish that Great Sower's fame, And, as we pile the sheaves on high, With awe we utter Dante's name. Six centuries, since the poet's birth, Have come and flitted o'er our sphere: The richest harvest reaped on earth Crowns the last century's closing year. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB A FOREST HYMN by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |
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