Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SECEDERS: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poet's Biography First Line: Yet what were love, and what were toil and thought Last Line: And make dull earth a heaven of thought below. Subject(s): Life; Love; Nature | ||||||||
YET what were love, and what were toil and thought, And what were life, bereft of Poesy? Who lingers in a garden where the bee By no rich beds of fragrant flowers is caught -- A homely vegetable patch where naught Is prized but for some table-caterer's fee, And Nature pledged to market-ministry? To me another lore was early taught; And rather would I lose the dear delights Of eye and ear, than wilfully forego The power that can transfigure sounds and sights, Can steep the world in symbols, and bestow The free admittance to all depths and heights, And make dull earth a heaven of thought below. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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