Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POETS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER First Line: Earth, you have had great lovers in your hour Last Line: And think it new -- about the weary moon! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Earth, you have had great lovers in your hour, And little lovers, fearful and struck dumb; Those who have seen you whole, as from a tower, And others kneeling where the grass-blades come. Age after spinning age and day by day, They toss the dawn between them, as a ball, Ride Beauty plunging to the whip of May, And string the stars to light their carnival. They will not heed the shouting, singing flood Of lovers gone before them. Echoed cries, Too like their own may sound, but their wild blood Is out of hand at seas and moving skies; The last to come will make his little tune, And think it new -- about the weary moon! | 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 800,000 VIBRATIONS TO THE SECOND by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER |
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