Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, QUICKENING, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: Such little, puny things are words in rhyme
Last Line: The stirring of a sonnet still unborn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Inspiration; Creativity


SUCH little, puny things are words in rhyme:
Poor feeble loops and strokes as frail as hairs;
You see them printed here, and mark their chime,
And turn to your more durable affairs.
Yet on such petty tools the poet dares
To run his race with mortar, bricks and lime,
And draws his frail stick to the point, and stares
To aim his arrow at the heart of Time.

Intangible, yet pressing, hemming in,
This measured emptiness engulfs us all,
And yet he points his paper javelin
And sees it eddy, waver, turn, and fall,
And feels, between delight and trouble torn,
The stirring of a sonnet still unborn.





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