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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WHITE WORLD, by LUCY LARCOM Poet's Biography First Line: I never knew the world in white Last Line: On this fair world of thine! Subject(s): Earth; World | |||
I NEVER knew the world in white So beautiful could be As I have seen it here to-day, Beside the wintry sea; A new earth, bride of a new heaven, Has been revealed to me. The sunrise blended wave and cloud In one broad flood of gold, But touched with rose the world's white robes In every curve and fold; While the blue air did over all Its breath in wonder hold. Earth was a statue half awake Beneath her Sculptor's hand: How the Great Master bends with love Above the work He planned, Easy it is, on such a day, To feel and understand. The virgin-birth of Bethlehem, That snow-pure infancy, Warm with the rose-bloom of the skies, -- Life's holiest mystery, -- God's utter tenderness to man, Seems written on all I see. For earth, this vast humanity, The Lord's own body is; To this our life He entereth in, Shares all its destinies; And we shall put His whiteness on When we are wholly His. And so the day dies like a dream, A prophecy divine: Dear Master, through us perfectly Shape Thou Thy white design, Nor let one life be left a blot On this fair world of Thine! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON |
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