Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOLD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poet's Biography First Line: In a place where the glare of the madded sun / tore Last Line: Gold! Subject(s): Gold | ||||||||
IN a place where the glare of the madded sun tore 'Til the air fairly sobbed with the travail it bore Where the red, blistered earth cried aloud in its pain, And with hot, cracking lips called to heaven in vain Where the womb of creation was sterile and dread As a she-mummy lying a thousand years dead Where the wind never rustled the branches of trees, Nor blossoms blush red at the kiss of the breeze Where no grass is, no shrub is, not even a weed Where birds never carol and beasts never breed Where the blind spawn of reptiles are gat but to die, And no winged thing on carrion bent fouls the sky A jabbering husk twenty million years old, Battered And tattered And shattered and torn; His eyes blind of sight and his reason spark gone; As naked and filthy as when he was born; Tumbled And stumbled And fumbled and fell On a rock, where the sun with the humor of hell Smote the raw, bleeding edge Of a fabulous ledge Of gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MAN SAW A BALL OF GOLD by RON PADGETT THE VINDICTIVES by ROBERT FROST BARELY COMPOSED by ALICE FULTON NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY by ROBERT FROST MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER MORAL by THOMAS HOOD THE UNGRATEFUL GARDEN by CAROLYN KIZER SUNKEN GOLD by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON |
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