Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KOSMOS, by JULIA WARD HOWE


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First Line: Of dust the primal adam came
Last Line: Lifting the heart of man with love.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Art & Artists; Bible; Love; Mankind; Soul; Eve; Human Race


Of dust the primal Adam came
In wondrous sequency evolved,
With speech that gave creation name,
Of art and artist never solved.

With something of a mother-pang
The Sun conceived the starry spheres
That from her burning bosom sprang, --
Immortal children of her tears.

From height of heat, and stress of span,
The measured Earth took poise and hold;
And beasts, the prophecy of man,
And man, were latent in her mould.

And hid in man a world intense,
The centre point of things that be,
With soul that conquers out of sense
Its incomplete divinity.

Around one infinite intent
All power and inspiration move,
Thrilling with light the firmament,
Lifting the heart of man with love.





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