Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUDDEN BEAUTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE


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First Line: Go look around the house corner
Last Line: Or, maybe, immortality.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Immortality; Stars; World


Go look around the house corner
And you will see the evening star
As clear as if you stood in fields,
Where no streets or factories are.

A melting brilliance! Yet as cool
Into the heart its light sinks
As bubbles under a waterfall
At which a buck or a doe drinks.

You need not put your hat on;
Ten steps around, and you will see
Why earth is not enough for men --
Or, maybe, immortality.





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