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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WORDS FOR A RESURRECTION, by LEO KENNEDY Poet's Biography First Line: Each pale christ stirring underground Last Line: And lilies on his brow. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The | |||
Each pale Christ stirring underground Splits the brown casket of its root, Wherefrom the rousing soil upthrusts A narrow, pointed shoot, And bones long quiet under frost Rejoice as bells precipitate The loud, ecstatic sundering, The hour inviolate. This Man of April walks again— Such marvel does the time allow— With laughter in His blesséd bones, And lilies on His brow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE READER OF THE SENTENCES by NORMAN DUBIE RESURRECTION UPDATE by JAMES GALVIN UNHOLY SONNET: 20 by MARK JARMAN ON RISING FROM THE DEAD by CAROLYN KIZER A GUARD OF THE SEPULCHER by EDWIN MARKHAM |
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