Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POETRY, by MARJORIE CRAIG First Line: What is this quenching of immortal thirst? Last Line: To light his way and make his labor sweet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
What is this quenching of immortal thirst? A numbing draught? An aimless anodyne? A furtive filching of a drink divine That earth may prove less aridly accurst? Not ever so. High poetry has long Awakened hours and animated days Of all who hunt by honor-open ways The bread of beauty and the sword of song. Through poetry man moves against the dark, Accoutred for the daunting of defeat; Through poetry he rises with the lark And is at home where earth and heaven meet; Through poetry his clay has caught a spark To light his way and make his labor sweet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB EVERYONE KNOWS WHOM THE SAVED ENVY by JAMES GALVIN |
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