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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEME AND VARIATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, man | |||
I Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, 1nan1 fire and water, earth and air all things alter even as I behold, all things alter, the stranger said. Alter, become a something more, a something less. Are the reveling shadows of a changing permanence. Are, are not and same and other, the stranger said. II I sense, he said, the lurking rush, the sly transience flickering at the edge of things. I've spied from the corner of my eye upon the striptease of reality. There is, there is, he said, an imminence that turns to curiosa all I know·· that changes light to rainbow darknes wherein God waylays us and empowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TWO MYSTERIES by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE TWENTY GOLDEN YEARS AGO by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN SAPPHO AND PHAON: 2. THE TEMPLE OF CHASTITY by MARY DARBY ROBINSON TWELVE SONNETS: 12. AFTER BATTLE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) LES HALLES D'YPRES by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE PLACE OF LOVE by S. C. BRACKETT THE UNKNOWN WAY by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT AH, WOE IS ME! MY MOTHER DEAR by ROBERT BURNS |
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