Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography First Line: The poet is the loneliest man that lives Last Line: Some come; some always sleep. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
The Poet is the loneliest man that lives; Ah me! God makes him so -- The sea hath its ebb and flow, He sings his songs -- but yet he only gives In the waves of the words of his art Only the foam of his heart. Its sea rolls on forever, evermore, Beautiful, vast, and deep; Only his shallowest thoughts touch the shore Of Speech; his deepest sleep. The foam that crests the wave is pure and white; The foam is not the wave; The wave is not the sea -- it rolls forever on; The winding shores will crave A kiss from ev'ry wavelet on the deep; Some come; some always sleep. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN |
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