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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. EASTER DAY ON MT. MOUNIER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Silence Last Line: Lost in the light of heaven. Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; The Resurrection | |||
SILENCE. Here on a rock in blue mid-air nine thousand feet, The whole encircling sky flooded with lightthe sun an unfaceable point in the dazzling zenith, Warm, windless, baskingthe snow at our feet a million bright points glittering; And far around a multitudinous sea of peaks, Frozen, of rock and ice, and fields of rounded whiteness, And jutting shoulders, and slopes of shale, and walls, Behind each other rising: All drenched, dissolved, in light, And waiting, silent, rapt, as if to break into song. But not a sound. Buried in invisible valleys'mid pine and larcn and torrent-beds below Villages ply their daily round of labor; The peasant hacks deep the soil around his vine-roots, or with his long pole beats the boughs of olive; Far by the sea, mid garden-terraces, hotels and villas, the great town keeps its carnival of Easter Unseen, unthought-of, here. Here only rests the stillness of the Earth, waiting upon the glory of the Sun; or here and there in some calm lakelet imaged. Ages fly by, and almost without change; dim lines of floating cloud just fringe the horizon; vistas of far lands, distant times, unfold; And the silence of centuries holds the secret of history Lost in the light of heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER EVE by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON GOD SEND EASTER by LUCILLE CLIFTON NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA by NORMAN DUBIE EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES by ELENI SIKELIANOS SPANISH EASTER: 1926 by CONRAD AIKEN AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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