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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CREEPER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the snail who on his back
Last Line: Be my own immensity?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Snails
First Line: Like the snail who on his back
Last Line: Be my own immensity?
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Snails
Like the snail, who on his back
Bears his home and bivouac,
Crawling in this world of wonder
Not an inch himself from under,
So I bear the starry dome
Above me for my creeping-home,
Prying forth pale antennae
To pierce my sheath of mystery.
Trailing on this sludge of time,
Groping toward the vast sublime,
Can this that overarches me
Be my own immensity?
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