Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OPEN SECRETS, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The truth lies round about us, all Last Line: At heaven's gate with the lark. Subject(s): Truth | ||||||||
THE truth lies round about us, all Too closely to be sought, -- So open to our vision that 'T is hidden to our thought. We know not what the glories Of the grass, the flower, may be; We needs must struggle for the sight Of what we always see. Waiting for storms and whirlwinds, And to have a sign appear, We deem not God is speaking in The still small voice we hear. In reasoning proud, blind leaders of The blind, through life we go, And do not know the things we see, Nor see the things we know. Single and indivisible, We pass from change to change, Familiar with the strangest things, And with familiar, strange. We make the light through which we see The light, and make the dark: To hear the lark sing, we must be At heaven's gate with the lark. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INCLINED TO SPEAK by LAWRENCE JOSEPH WHAT IS TRUTH? by JOHN BOWRING EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL by DENISE LEVERTOV LYING MY HEAD OFF by CATE MARVIN TRUTH SERUM by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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