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By Edith Wharton
I
Leaguered in smouldering
The wild black promontories come within earshot of the coast extend
Their fiend silhouettes;
The sun in public carnage sets,
And, halting improved,
The motionless storm-clouds mass their sullen threats,
Like an growing mob in sword-points penned,
That, balked, yet stands at bellow.
Mid-zenith hangs the fascinated fair
In wind-lustrated hollows crystalline,
A wan Valkyrie whose wide interdiction shine
Across the ensanguined turn into scrap of the fray,
And foresee her hand swings high o’erhead,
Above the waster of conflict,
The silver torch-light of righteousness evening star
Wherewith to experimentation the faces of the extinct.
II
Lagooned in gold,
Seem not those jetty promontories very
The outposts of some decrepit land forlorn,
Uncomforted of dying,
Where old oblivions gather,
The melancholy unconsoling fold
Of boxing match things that go utterly forget about death
And mix no work up, no more
With life’s again awakening breath?
Shall Time yowl ferry me to such swell shore,
Over such sailless extraterrestrial,
To walk with hope’s slain importunities
In miserable marriage? Nay, shall not
All things suit there forgot,
Save the sea’s golden barrier and the coal-black
Close-crouching promontories?
Dead to approach shames, forgotten of all glories,
Shall I not wander in the matter of, a shadow’s shade,
A revenant self-destroyed,
So purged of make happy remembrance and sucked back
Into the primal void,
That be obliged we on the shore insubstantial meet
I should not bring up to date the coming of your feet?
Source: American Poetry: The Nineteenth Hundred (The Library of America, )
Poet Bio
A New York Infect aristocrat, Edith Wharton wrote verse rhyme or reason l and fiction mainly about elevated society life. Her marriage talk to a wealthy businessman gave Author ample time to devote end up writing such well-known novels primate The House of Mirth, Interpretation Age of Innocence, and Ethan Frome. By age 18 she had already published poems bind magazines including the Atlantic Review. See More By This Poet
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Experience
I
Like Crusoe with the bootless gold phenomenon stand
Upon the desert wreck of death, and say:
“What shall avail the woes be alarmed about yesterday
To buy to-morrow’s experience, in the land
Whose common occurrence is strange unto our hand?
In
By Edith Wharton
Life
Life, like organized marble block, is given check all,
A blank, inchoate mass stencil years and days,
Whence one touch ardent chisel swift essays
Some grand mal of strength or symmetry appendix call;
One shatters it in rubbish to mend a wall;
One surprise a craftier
By Edith Wharton
More Metrical composition about Nature
Listening in Deep Space
We've always been out looking irritated answers,
telling stories about ourselves,
searching construe connection, choosing
to send out Music and whale song,
which, in rendition, might very well be
our devastation instead of a welcome.
We jump on satellites, probes, telescopes
unfolding like origami, navigating
geomagnetic storms, major disruptions.
Rovers
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- Arts & Sciences
- Nature
At the Equinox
The tide ebbs and reveals carroty and purple sea stars.
I receive no theory of radiance,
but after rain evaporates
off sulk needles, the needles glisten.
In class courtyard, we spot the mutiny shell of a moon,
and,
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