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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ANSWER, by MARY ELIZABETH COLMAN
First Line: Hungry unnumbered since the birth of time
Last Line: Is whipped, stripped, done and dead.
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Hungry unnumbered since the birth of time
Last Line: Is whipped, stripped, done and dead.
Subject(s): Time
Hungry unnumbered since the birth of time
Question the dusty sky
In vain: no answer there.
Gone, gone, as darkness floods the day,
Fled, sped, unsatisfied—
Ashes to ashes; dust to dust.
(The scabbard falls, yet the bright sword
Guardian no longer
Speeds, speeds to the Horseman's hand.)
Still time arrogant, invincible, is armed with death;
Still the unregarding worlds roll on;
The universe expands—is dumb.
With no stone hunger be fed, but quickening bread
When tall-sceptered time at last
Is whipped, stripped, done and dead.
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