Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LET ME GO DOWN TO DUST, by LEW SARETT Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go down to dust and dreams Last Line: Gives its worn body back to earth again. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dust; Night; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime | ||||||||
LET me go down to dust and dreams Gently, O Lord, with never a fear Of death beyond the day that is done; In such a manner as beseems A kinsman of the wild, a son Of stoic earth whose race is run. Let me go down as any deer, Who, broken by a desperate flight, Sinks down to slumber for the night Dumbly serene in certitude That it will rise again at dawn, Buoyant, refreshed of limb, renewed, And confident that it will thrill Tomorrow to its nuzzling fawn, To the bugle-notes of elk upon the hill. Let me go down to dreams and dust Gently, O Lord, with quiet trust And the fortitude that marks a child Of earth, a kinsman of the wild. Let me go down as any doe That nods upon its ferny bed, And, lulled to slumber by the flow Of talking water, the muffled brawl Of far cascading waterfall, At last lets down its weary head Deep in the brookmints in the glen; And under the starry-candled sky, With never the shadow of a sigh, Gives its worn body back to earth again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BREATH OF NIGHT by RANDALL JARRELL HOODED NIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS NIGHT WITHOUT SLEEP by ROBINSON JEFFERS WORKING OUTSIDE AT NIGHT by DENIS JOHNSON POEM TO TAKE BACK THE NIGHT by JUNE JORDAN COOL DARK ODE by DONALD JUSTICE POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M by DONALD JUSTICE ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT by BOB KAUFMAN FOUR LITTLE FOXES by LEW SARETT |
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