Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IMMORTAL, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is still immortal in our eyes Last Line: And hear new stars come singing from god's hand. Subject(s): Beauty; Immortality | ||||||||
BEAUTY is still immortal in our eyes; When sways no more the spirit-haunted reed, When the wild grape shall build No more her canopies, When blows no more the moon-gray thistle seed, When the last bell has lulled the white flocks home, When the last eve has stilled The wandering wing and touched the dying foam, When the last moon burns low, and, spark by spark, The little worlds die out along the dark, Beauty that rosed the moth-wing, touched the land With clover-horns and delicate faint flowers, Beauty that bade the showers Beat on the violet's face, Shall hold the eternal heavens within their place And hear new stars come singing from God's hand. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS by ROBERT BLY DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING by DAVID IGNATOW I CLOSE MY EYES by DAVID IGNATOW IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE THE THINGS THAT DIE by GREGORY ORR THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON YOUTH'S IMMORTALITY by GEORGE SANTAYANA A CHILD'S SONG OF CHRISTMAS by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL |
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