Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 9, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all the thoughts of all the minds of men Last Line: And beauty perfect from the hands of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Beauty; Reason; Sea; Thought; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Ocean; Thinking | ||||||||
IF all the thoughts of all the minds of men At last were stilled in night for evermore; If all the sea should fade from all the shore, And all the earth be as a dried-up fen; Would not the Maker and Destroyer then Look backward half-remorseful, and deplore The ruined world Himself might not restore, His own creation, withered from His ken? Or would such things as here did bear in them Intenser life-fire than the rest attain, Live on, as at their highest, in spheres untrod By meaner Being? -- The might of Shakespeare's brain; The vast Compassion born at Bethlehem; And Beauty perfect from the hands of God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MILLE ET UN SENTIMENTS (PREMIERS CENTS) by DENISE DUHAMEL SUNDAY AFTERNOON by CLARENCE MAJOR I BROOD ABOUT SOME CONCEPTS, FOR EXAMPLE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER EASY LESSONS IN GEOPHAGY by KENNETH REXROTH GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH |
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