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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AGNOSTIC TO MYSTIC, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does it matter to you whether heaven or god Last Line: Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems—! Subject(s): Cold; Earth; Mysticism; Nature; Weather; World | |||
Why does it matter to you whether Heaven or God Are wraiths or realities? We—we can never be told. Why do you sigh so, and stare like a stricken thing Out of the boundaries of earth, as if earth were a wilderness trod, The sky and the sod Thrilling no joy to you save through His presence? The old Beat of the ardent wing, Way of the warm to the cold? Yet, am I cold? Is not rather the coldness with you, Dim groper in cloud, discontent with the fulness of earth? What but phrase do you draw in your net from the ocean of dreams? Be you content with sure glories, with moonlight and sunlight and dew, With golden and blue! Yet, in deep passionate hours on the hills—by the sea— Nigh to the gates of birth,— Sometimes, oh, sometimes it seems—! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE FALCONER OF GOD by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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