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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EAGLE SONNETS: 6, by CLEMENT WOOD Poet's Biography First Line: We are parts of a vaster thing than we Last Line: Inexorably one with all that is. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion | |||
We are parts of a vaster thing than we, Not isolated aliens astray: We walk and breathe in a totality That links all men in its organic sway. Vaster than this, we grow within a one That clasps all things that grow within its heart; Yes, all the lifelessness from sun to sun Shares in the body in which we have part. How can the part prove traitor to the whole, Or how rebel against itself? No more Than body could rebel against the soul, Or soul betray the body that it wore. We are, for all our struts and ecstasies, Inexorably one with all that is. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST: YA-IHL'S SONG TO THE NORTH WIND by ALICE HENSON ERNST THE VICTORY OF FAITH by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON THE ARCTIC INDIAN'S FAITH by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE HOPI SNAKE DANCE by J. MORRIS RICHARDS THE MOHEGAN CHURCH by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY MOUNT AGIOCHOOK by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER EAGLE SONNETS: 3 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 4 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 5 by CLEMENT WOOD |
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