Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NO QUESTION, by GEORGE H. DILLON First Line: Seeing at last how each thing here beneath Last Line: Why birds must fly, seeing the flight of birds. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Flowers; Dead, The | ||||||||
Seeing at last how each thing here beneath The glimmering stars is lawful: having found By a wide watch how scrupulously Death To keep his tacit promises is bound, How from their vagrance the disbanded dusts Resume integrity in blood or bloom, How punctually the sunstruck red rose thrusts Its rigid flame into the golden gloom -- Knowing that ultimate prospect where appears The accurate ebb and flood of furious water, The undirected wind's clean course, the sphere's Deliberate strong spinning, I would utter No question now, nor prosecute in words Why birds must fly, seeing the flight of birds. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND AUTUMN WIND by GEORGE H. DILLON |
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