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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOTION, by SSU-K'UNG T'U Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a water-wheel awhirl
Last Line: Behold the key that fits my theme.
Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng
First Line: Like a water-wheel awhirl
Last Line: Behold the key that fits my theme.
Alternate Author Name(s): Piao-sheng
Like a water-wheel awhirl,
Like the rolling of a pearl;
Yet these but illustrate,
To fools, the final state.
The earth's great axis spinning on,
The never-resting pole of sky --
Let us resolve their Whence and Why,
And blend with all things into One;
Beyond the bounds of thought and dream,
Circling the vasty void as spheres
Whose orbits round a thousand years:
Behold the Key that fits my theme.
Other Poems of Interest...
DIRGE FOR A SOLDIER [SEPTEMBER 1, 1862] by GEORGE HENRY BOKER
OF A FAIR LADY PLAYING WITH A SNAKE by EDMUND WALLER
FESSEDEN'S GARDEN by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN
SUNSET ON THE ORANGE MOUNTAINS by ADRIAN BERKOWITZ
UNCHANGING by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT
ULTIMATION by MAGDELEN EDEN BOYLE
THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS by ANNE BRADSTREET