Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!" Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking | ||||||||
Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume, Slaking the heart's immortal thirst? Only the old we reillume; But thinkto have dreamed the flowers first! Think,to have dreamed the first blue sea; Imaged every illustrious hue Of the earliest sunset's tapestry; And the snow,and the birds, when their songs were new! Think,from the blue of highest heaven To have sown all the stars, to have whispered "Light!" Hung a moon in a prismy even, Spun a world on its splendid flight! To have first conceived of boundless Space; To have thought so small as to garb the trees; All planet years in your mind's embrace, And the midge's life, for all of these! And Man still boasts of his brain's weak best In dream or invention; from first to last Blunders 'mid wonders barely guessed, And fondly believes that his thoughts are "vast"! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MILLE ET UN SENTIMENTS (PREMIERS CENTS) by DENISE DUHAMEL SUNDAY AFTERNOON by CLARENCE MAJOR I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY by KENNETH REXROTH GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH ON FLOWER WREATH HILL: 1 by KENNETH REXROTH THE FALCONER OF GOD by WILLIAM ROSE BENET |
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