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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLASTING, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poet's Biography First Line: She drilled a drill of loss within her heart Last Line: Engulfed the tinkling city's decorous hiss. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of | |||
She drilled a drill of loss within her heart And severance was sharp as steel on bone, But she decided, better to be known Than live, however peacefully, apart. And so she severed their two lives, for art! Well, fame arrived when love was overthrown -- She did not know it came, standing alone Where lighted shadows rear a tall rampart. She watched drills blasting . . . What is sunlight worth To things torn out of their alloted earth? . . . These rocks had clung like lovers in a kiss. Now they were sundered; in the world's control . . . Their ponderous moan re-echoed through her soul, Engulfed the tinkling city's decorous hiss. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROSE AND MURRAY by CONRAD AIKEN THOUGH WE NO LONGER POSSESS IT by MARK JARMAN THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LOVE COME AND GONE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 33 by JAMES JOYCE A SCOTCH SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE DEPORTED by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN |
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