Written by
Hart Crane |
Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath
An embassy.
Their numbers as he watched,
Beat on the dusty shore and were obscured.
And wrecks passed without sound of bells,
The calyx of death's bounty giving back
A scattered chapter, livid hieroglyph,
The portent wound in corridors of shells.
Then in the circuit calm of one vast coil,
Its lashings charmed and malice reconciled,
Frosted eyes there were that lifted altars;
And silent answers crept across the stars.
Compass, quadrant and sextant contrive
No farther tides .
.
.
High in the azure steeps
Monody shall not wake the mariner.
This fabulous shadow only the sea keeps.
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Written by
A R Ammons |
This is just a place:
we go around, distanced,
yearly in a star's
atmosphere, turning
daily into and out of
direct light and
slanting through the
quadrant seasons: deep
space begins at our
heels, nearly rousing
us loose: we look up
or out so high, sight's
silk almost draws us away:
this is just a place:
currents worry themselves
coiled and free in airs
and oceans: water picks
up mineral shadow and
plasm into billions of
designs, frames: trees,
grains, bacteria: but
is love a reality we
made here ourselves--
and grief--did we design
that--or do these,
like currents, whine
in and out among us merely
as we arrive and go:
this is just a place:
the reality we agree with,
that agrees with us,
outbounding this, arrives
to touch, joining with
us from far away:
our home which defines
us is elsewhere but not
so far away we have
forgotten it:
this is just a place.
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Written by
William Blake |
1.
They named the child Orc, he grew
Fed with milk of Enitharmon
2.
Los awoke her; O sorrow & pain!
A tight'ning girdle grew,
Around his bosom.
In sobbings
He burst the girdle in twain,
But still another girdle
Opressd his bosom, In sobbings
Again he burst it.
Again
Another girdle succeeds
The girdle was form'd by day;
By night was burst in twain.
3.
These falling down on the rock
Into an iron Chain
In each other link by link lock'd
4.
They took Orc to the top of a mountain.
O how Enitharmon wept!
They chain'd his young limbs to the rock
With the Chain of Jealousy
Beneath Urizens deathful shadow
5.
The dead heard the voice of the child
And began to awake from sleep
All things.
heard the voice of the child
And began to awake to life.
6.
And Urizen craving with hunger
Stung with the odours of Nature
Explor'd his dens around
7.
He form'd a line & a plummet
To divide the Abyss beneath.
He form'd a dividing rule:
8.
He formed scales to weigh;
He formed massy weights;
He formed a brazen quadrant;
He formed golden compasses
And began to explore the Abyss
And he planted a garden of fruits
9.
But Los encircled Enitharmon
With fires of Prophecy
From the sight of Urizen & Orc.
10.
And she bore an enormous race
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