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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RENAISSANCE, by ELISABETH KUSKULIS First Line: The sun moves northward, in its flaming track Last Line: The ancient meaning of the nascent spring. | |||
The Sun moves northward, in its flaming track A cosmos follows; planets at that call, Wake to new wanderings and fling the pall Of gray inertia from the zodiac. The gravid earth by diastolic wrack Is torn in birth -- the holiest of all Life's miracles. Each atom feels the thrall Of being, cleaving from the cryptic black. Stars, chastely white, know that eternal quest, Earth answers its primeval uttering; Hills change from monks to gypsies, gayly drest, And valleys bloom with many a mating nest; While lovers learn, to larks' mad caroling, The ancient meaning of the nascent Spring. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SINGING STEEL by ELISABETH KUSKULIS WITH CHAOS IN EACH KISS by TIMOTHY LIU IDEA: 14. TO TIME by MICHAEL DRAYTON THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE BURNING BABE by ROBERT SOUTHWELL TO THE QUEEN by ALFRED TENNYSON STAGE SETTING KANSAS by BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.; POET LAUREATE AND HISTOGRAPHER ROYAL by PHILIP AYRES SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 45. A LITTLE WHILE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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