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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EAGLE SONNETS: 2, by CLEMENT WOOD Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know that other men exist Last Line: It is one's self, and knows no further range. | |||
I cannot know that other men exist: It is but a belief, obscurely guessed. Within the mirror, brain, they move in mist; A wall of air holds back the friendliest breast. To me they are. . . . And so to me the vision My fancy builds this moment in the air, Food for a clearer glance's high derision, Food for a thoughtful hour's thin despair. For knowledge is from skill of inward seeing, Not bred of eye, or ear, or touch, alone: It is the younger, truer name of being, No gossip spread by careless flesh and bone; And though from seed to fruit to seed it change, It is one's self, and knows no further range. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BERKSHIRES IN APRIL by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 1 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 3 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 4 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 5 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 6 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 7 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 8 by CLEMENT WOOD |
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