Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EAGLE SONNETS: 4, by CLEMENT WOOD


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EAGLE SONNETS: 4, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And - spirit? Is it some ethereal spark
Last Line: Shall follow where the striving heart has gone.
Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion


And -- spirit? Is it some ethereal spark
Nurtured in disembodied realms of air,
Sentenced to serve within the human dark,
Finding through death its deathless life elsewhere?
It is the sum of ancient ache and feeling,
All I have touched and seen. I cannot tell
But there are, for a tardier revealing,
More ancient aches and feelings found as well.
Yet this is all. . . . The flower's scent is blended
Of airy particles sprung from its core;
And when the blossom's summer hour is ended,
No scent lives on, to knock at Heaven's door.
And so my spirit, which in striving shone,
Shall follow where the striving heart has gone.





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