Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TWO POETS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is the speech Last Line: "o thou my voice, the word was thine."" ""was thine." Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
WHOSE is the speech That moves the voices of this lonely beech? Out of the long west did this wild wind come -- O strong and silent! And the tree was dumb, Ready and dumb, until The dumb gale struck it on the darkened hill. Two memories, Two powers, two promises, two silences Closed in this cry, closed in these thousand leaves Articulate. This sudden hour retrieves The purpose of the past, Separate, apart -- embraced, embraced at last. "Whose is the word? Is it I that spake? Is it thou? Is it I that heard?" "Thine earth was solitary, yet I found thee!" "Thy sky was pathless, but I caught, I bound thee, Thou visitant divine." "O thou my Voice, the word was thine." "Was thine." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB I AM THE WAY' by ALICE MEYNELL |
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