Best Famous Automaton Poems
Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Automaton poems. This is a select list of the best famous Automaton poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Automaton poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of automaton poems.
Search and read the best famous Automaton poems, articles about Automaton poems, poetry blogs, or anything else Automaton poem related using the PoetrySoup search engine at the top of the page.
See Also:
Written by
Thomas Hardy |
WHEN I look forth at dawning, pool,
Field, flock, and lonely tree,
All seem to look at me
Like chastened children sitting silent in a school;
Their faces dulled, constrained, and worn,
As though the master's ways
Through the long teaching days
Their first terrestrial zest had chilled and overborne.
And on them stirs, in lippings mere
(As if once clear in call,
But now scarce breathed at all)--
"We wonder, ever wonder, why we find us here!
"Has some Vast Imbecility,
Mighty to build and blend,
But impotent to tend,
Framed us in jest, and left us now to hazardry?
"Or come we of an Automaton
Unconscious of our pains?.
.
.
Or are we live remains
Of Godhead dying downwards, brain and eye now gone?
"Or is it that some high Plan betides,
As yet not understood,
Of Evil stormed by Good,
We the Forlorn Hope over which Achievement strides?"
Thus things around.
No answerer I.
.
.
.
Meanwhile the winds, and rains,
And Earth's old glooms and pains
Are still the same, and gladdest Life Death neighbors nigh.
|