Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSCRIPTION, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS First Line: What has been written secretly in these Last Line: The faint, fantastic scripture of the stars. Subject(s): Knowledge | ||||||||
What has been written secretly in these Old archives of the mind? What still unread And untranslated language of the dead Strives with our lips to speak, through memories, Of griefs and exultations lost not yet? We cannot know. Our mazed thoughts grope among Legends and words and symbols to find tongue; But we are dumb or fearful, or forget. We are a phrase -- no more. The winds erase The charact'ry of dust, and meanings lie New-figured still beyond the glyphs of Mars, As endlessly the hands of Twilight trace Across the ancient palimpsest of sky The faint, fantastic scripture of the stars. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW DO YOU KNOW? by EVE MERRIAM ENLIGHTENMENT by JOSEPHINE MILES PHYSIOLOGUS by JOSEPHINE MILES A COLLEGELANDS CATECHISM by PAUL MULDOON THE BEAR AND THE MAN by ROBERT BLY A PARIS BLACKBIRD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE LIGHT THAT CAME TO LUCILLE CLIFTON by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952 by NORMAN DUBIE BEATEN TRACKS by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS |
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