|
|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WIND IN THE PINES, by PHILLIPS KLOSS First Line: Persist after permanence Last Line: Irradiating sounds of strange belief. | |||
Persist after permanence -- What value endures? Men have built of stone and steel, and they have gone; Men have built of abstract thought to the outer edge of space An infinite absolute ending place, And it has gone. It is more intimate, I think, The everlasting spirit of the pines; The tree that lives forever in the mind, The scent, the shade, the symmetry that shines; The place to go when every thought is blind. Face down on the fragrant earth, New sight, new birth. And though perpetual restoration leads to final death, Death is not a darkness there; a lovely shining breath, No more enduring than the wind that sings through each long leaf, Irradiating sounds of strange belief. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CITY REVISITED by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET OPEN, TIME by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY THE FALL OF HYPERION; A DREAM by JOHN KEATS A FAREWELL [TO C.E.G.] by CHARLES KINGSLEY |
| |