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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BROWN WORD HOME, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE
First Line: About the brown word home
Last Line: Home, the flame, the stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs.
Subject(s): Home; Wellesley College
First Line: About the brown word home
Last Line: Home, the flame, the stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs.
Subject(s): Home; Wellesley College
ABOUT the brown word home
There is a thing unheard
Like eyes that fill with unshed tears,
Throats that speak no word.
It lifts within its tone
Complete eternity
As does a flower all night long
Lift up a complete sea.
Who reads within its heart
Must dwell on life and death,
The dark and curious first slime
Whence we arose to breath.
It tells of more than God,
And hell is but a page;
Who has his home knows mystery,
His spirit's heritage.
I say the word and know
The ecstasy of pain;
It is the root, the stone, the star,
The elemental rain.
I say the word, and flesh
Burns with a fire of dream:
Primeval and inevitable,
Home, the flame, the stream.
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