Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: HERITAGE, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS First Line: Earth's sweet and patient processes have wrought Last Line: A load of winter forage for the cows. | ||||||||
Earth's sweet and patient processes have wrought In him not otherwise than in a seed, Storing the fruity essences for thought To take and shape to wisdom at his need. And so, as if returned somehow to men From out the reach of lost Arcadian days, He brings the sense of Infinite again, And epic grace to casual speech and ways. Rooted too deep in cosmos to be stirred By tumults of the hour, he keeps his way, -- Evoking with a single clovered word Virgilian peasants ricking up their hay, Or bees about Hymettus, as he mows A load of winter forage for the cows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN AUTUMN TONES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS OLD HOUSE by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS PASTURES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: PROSPICENCE by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: RENEWALS by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WHOM EARTH HAS TAUGHT: REVELATION by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS WINTER TREES by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS AN ISLAND (SAINT HELENA, 1821) by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE CROCODILE, FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON |
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