Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIRACLES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sick of myself and all that keeps the light Last Line: And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. Variant Title(s): Sunset Subject(s): Miracles; Nature | ||||||||
SICK of myself and all that keeps the light Of the blue skies away from me and mine, I climb this ledge, and by this wind-swept pine Lingering, watch the coming of the night. 'T is ever a new wonder to my sight. Men look to God for some mysterious sign, For other stars than those that nightly shine, For some unnatural symbol of His might: -- Wouldst see a miracle as grand as those The prophets wrought of old in Palestine? Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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