Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PLANTS AND PLANETS, by ROBERT MARTEAU


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PLANTS AND PLANETS, by                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Without any intelligence
Subject(s): Nature


Plants and planets
Obey the same heaven;
As beasts and men
Are nourished by the same sun;


And the metal in the mine
Warms minute stars,
Sulphurous flowers so delicate
They live in every corpuscule.


Dwarves and giants are
Powder and dust thrown far
Without fall or check whirl
To the four cornerless, angleless


Worlds, peopled with angels,
But others say not at all.
Their worlds seem
Fired from a cannon,

Fired by whom by chance,
This expanding consequence,
The fruit of some grapeshot
Without any intelligence





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