Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FINAL FREEDOM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography First Line: At the grim end, no prison for me Last Line: "one with the wind and sky and sea." Subject(s): Fate; Freedom; Love; Sea; Destiny; Liberty; Ocean | ||||||||
AT the grim end, no prison for me Wherein my blanched mortality, Immured, shall lie, because it must, Till it resolve itself to dust. Nay, let a flame, of mystic might To make corruption clean and light, Prepare my body for its Fate, From loathly things inviolate. Then, standing by great waters, where The heavens stretch wide, and sun and air And ampleness inhabit, cast My ashes to the azure Vast. And I shall thank you, being blent With what I love, the element Of earth refined and caught away; Yea, I shall thank you and shall say: "The fierce purgation of the fire Has loosed my spirit, I aspire Toward God, I mount, elate and free, One with the wind and sky and sea." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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