Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: PROSPICENCE, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS First Line: It troubles him but little that so few Last Line: In dust once happy in the ways of men. | ||||||||
It troubles him but little that so few Enchanted hours are captured in life's sieve, And that the future he is traveling to Is likelier by far to take than give. Nor does it matter, greatly, that his lease On breath was drawn with no renewal clause, With years of tenure liable to cease Without due notice of specific cause. His garment of her weaving -- when laid by Worn and disordered -- Earth will take as due, Folding it into silences that lie Deep in her breast that there she may renew For flower and grass some sentience again In dust once happy in the ways of men. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN AUTUMN TONES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS OLD HOUSE by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS PASTURES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: HERITAGE by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: RENEWALS by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: REVELATION by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WINTER TREES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS SISTER MARIA CELESTE, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, WRITES TO FRIEND by MADELINE DEFREES COUNTRY SCHOOLROOM, ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER |
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