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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN AN OLD QUARRY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Once in an old quarry Last Line: One sentence of thy great world-wisdom out Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mankind; Male-female Relations; Human Race | |||
ONCE in an old quarry, In a heathery nook among the rocks, unclothed as I reclined in the sun, facing only the great hills and the sky, Millions of years floating softly down through the aerial blue, Thy words—millions millions of human forms— I saw descending. Tiny, into the tissue of grass and tree and herb passing—into the mouths and bodies of men and animals—and here and there a fitting home in the sex-cells finding, At length, clothed mortal men and women, Out on the actual world I saw them step: Thy words—thy wandering words—each one alone, so lost, so meaningless, Each seeking his true mates, if so to spell One sentence of thy great world-wisdom out | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MUCH EARTH by PHILIP LEVINE THE SHEEP IN THE RUINS by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH THE CONQUERORS by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE MARMOZET by HILAIRE BELLOC MEN, WOMEN, AND EARTH by ROBERT BLY BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF by LUCILLE CLIFTON AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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