Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT Poet's Biography First Line: Fancy, the rapture Last Line: God. Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World | ||||||||
Fancy the rapture Of being there When the world was made! Of hiding somewhere In the lavender shade, And seeing the stars, Like a dryad's hair, Untwined and twinkled And sprinkled through A sky of jade, Becoming beneath their silvering A tremulous blue. Magnificent, too, To watch the mountains come bubbling up And the valleys beneath them like a cup, Catching the timorous, tear-like streams, That trickled from heaven And God-of-Dreams. Or in tangled Eden To see Him touch With His finger-tips (His holy hand would have been too much) A figure of clay, Its cheeks, its lips, While a covey of cherubs scurried away In rapt surprise At the sight of a soul In the clay thing's eyes, And they Opening On Paradise. Or Eve, perhaps, Her hair still wet With the frosts of heaven And the dewy sweat Of the Hand that made her from Adam's side And placed her there, Murmurous, wonder-eyed, To be his miracle, Temptress, Bride. Fancy the nuptials, The seeing her nod At the clean, green world, And Adam, His body white on the damp, new sod . . . That would be rapture, Alchemy, God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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