Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR TRANSIENT THINGS, by JAMES ANDREW SCARBOROUGH MCPEEK First Line: Let us thank god for unfulfilled desire Last Line: Better that beauty should not be at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcpeek, James A. S. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving | ||||||||
Let us thank God for unfulfilled desire, For beauty that escapes our clutch and flies; Let us thank God for loveliness that dies, For violet leapings of a dying fire, For ebbing lives and seas, the fading choir Of quiet stars, the momentary guise That love assumes within a lover's eyes Before it fades with other things that tire. Better that beauty wear into the night An inky garment of uncandled hours Than stay forever robed in festal white, And so, familiar grown, like flowers One counts as common weeds, begin to pall Better that beauty should not be at all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CULTURE OF GLASS by THYLIAS MOSS THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING by NORMAN DUBIE OUR PRAYER OF THANKS by CARL SANDBURG THANKSGIVING DAY by LYDIA MARIA CHILD XAIPE: 65 by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS THE OL' TUNES by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE] by ROBERT HERRICK TWENTY-FOUR HOKKU ON A MODERN THEME by AMY LOWELL |
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