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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EACH IN HIS OWN TONGUE, by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH Poet's Biography First Line: A fire-mist and a planet Last Line: And others call it god. Subject(s): God; Religion; Theology | |||
A FIRE MIST and a planet -- A crystal and a cell, -- A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cave men dwell; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod -- Some call it Evolution, And others call it God. A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high; And all over upland and lowland The charm of the goldenrod -- Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God. Like tides on a crescent sea beach, When the moon is new and thin, Into our hearts high yearnings Come welling and surging in -- Come from the mystic ocean, Whose rim no foot has trod -- Some of us call it Longing, And others call it God. A picket frozen on duty, A mother starved for her brood, Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway plod -- Some call it Consecration, And others call it God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY DREAMERS OF DREAMS by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH |
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