Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHIMNEY-SWEEP, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen leaves skitter fleet Last Line: And ever clean the house of woe! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers And Chimneys; Life; Love; Moon; Time | ||||||||
Fallen leaves skitter fleet And elf-like down the street. Winds have blown the moon awry, It hangs a half-thing in the sky; A sorry chimney-pot thing, Sooty silver in a ring. Time, the sweep, has brushed away Half of it.... Alack-a-day! Nothing's safe from the doom Of Time's broom. Nothing -- neither love nor life, Not friend, not wife! Time, ruthless chimney-sweep, Smudges all we would keep. After him we must go And ever clean the house of woe! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND A CHARM TO BRING CHILDREN (EGYPT, A.D. 100) by CALE YOUNG RICE |
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