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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELAN VITAL, by VIOLA CHITTENDEN WHITE Poet's Biography
First Line: Some days I tend with careful sun and showers
Last Line: How deep the source, how inexhaustible.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
First Line: Some days I tend with careful sun and showers
Last Line: How deep the source, how inexhaustible.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
SOME days I tend with careful sun and showers,
But hungry time demands their fruit of me,
And I alone possess my wasted hours,
Which are the children of infinity.
I dare rejoice that I have offered gifts
To many a deity of wood and clay,
And many a house have built where sea sand drifts,
And many a ship lost on the ocean-way.
I dare rejoice at trespassing and tears
And at the doomed Niagaras of the soul
That, flowing faster as the chasm nears,
Go down in thunder, knowing not their goal;
For by their depth of wastage I can tell
How deep the source, how inexhaustible.
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