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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIND OF MAN, by FRANK PIERCE GALLAGHER First Line: Feed our eyes, oh light, with sights about us Last Line: God and she have earned a garland flock. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Work; Workers; Human Race | |||
Feed our eyes, oh light, with sights about us. Let us muse the noble work of man: Loyal structures working here and yonder, Comforting our longing earthly clan; Houses, fully forming whose plans took eons, Still imperfect shoots from olden caves; Raised in weeks, displacing years of errors, Tutored by which mind of man behaves; Polished autos, aeroplanes and vessels, Trains, machinery and highways paved; All are human mind's maturing offspring Fertile still for child of future craved. Not for me's the sapping, boundless labor, To compile thought's products mounting fast, Though it makes me growingly religious: Thus unfolds earth's scheme unearthly vast. Mind of man, that from the mindless kingdom, Swiftly reared us to our fitting fore, Yet the world, prostrated to thy sceptre, May be housed within thy stretching lore. When an offspring tops a mound of brilliance, Parents are praised, for son is of their stock; So, if mind is mother to these projects, God and she have earned a garland flock. | 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 THE MOUNTAINEER by FRANK PIERCE GALLAGHER |
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