Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE REWARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS


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First Line: The heights and caverns of the hills
Last Line: Forgetfulness of misery.
Subject(s): Earth; Life; Love; Mothers; Nature; Pain; Rewards; World; Suffering; Misery


The heights and caverns of the hills,
The dark unvoyageable seas,
The perilous brooks, the lonely rills,
The footless and mysterious breeze, --
These are immortal as the earth,
Their mother; but behold! they take
No thought of her that gave them birth,
Of her that travailed for their sake;
But man who labours night and day
To fill the mother's lap with flowers,
Make roses blossom from the clay
And vineyards ripen 'neath the showers,
Man who gives thought, love, life for her,
What recompense for him hath she?
A small and narrow sepulchre,
Forgetfulness of misery.





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