Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A SUMMER DAY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Seeing once again the ethereal blue of the sky Last Line: Dream-walking, till at length the real day may dawn. Subject(s): Beauty; Summer | ||||||||
SEEING once again the ethereal blue of the skythe limpid airthe all-enfolding sunlight, Here in the great tumultuous abounding city, or again in the far woods among the fallen oak-boles and the fox-gloves, The far floating ever haunting shimmer of uncaught beauty: I recognise that in all and everywhere it is the same; Somehow to hold and have this in oneself This light and everlasting space, This real eternal, whence the sensible light and space are born Somehow to hold from all things still a little aloof for this; No rock that stands above the river's edgebut that which illumines the rock; No brown sail in the baybut the sweet undirected air that wafts it; No pleasure, but the greater which lets the pleasure go or come; Not anything, but that which brings to all things grace and light. Still the far clouds just rim the Western skydomed masses clear above, below lost in the summer haze: So vast the orb of heaven enfolds the earththe rocks and seas and riversand the dream-walking millions of the earth; So vast the soul of every man enfolds his mortal deeds and thoughts, Deeds, thoughts, desires, confused and contrary, vexing each other and vexed, in myriads, every shade and color, form and tongue, strange wanderers, Dream-walking, till at length the real day may dawn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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