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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WORDS, by LAURA M. BRADLEY First Line: Oh, what are words? And what can words convey? Last Line: To catch our swift emotions on the wing. Subject(s): Language; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Words; Vocabulary | |||
Oh, what are words? And what can words convey? Some tiny, dry and lifeless letters flung In sequences to give each brain a tongue? Poor harmless drudges harnessed to a shay? To drag parched thoughts from some long yesterday? Not so! But vibrant strains from music sung -- Eternal echoes! -- when the world was young And prancing Pegasus emerged from clay; Rare, polished jewels to set in Cloisonne; Bright mist of stars that send their light among Remote and shadowed planets; knives that stung With bite of steel and freed us from decay. Words are the lustrous, silver nets we fling To catch our swift emotions on the wing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER WHITE NOCTURNE by CONRAD AIKEN IF HE SHOULD COME by EDWIN MARKHAM THE LOVER COMFORTETH HIMSELF WITH THE WORTHINESS OF HIS LOVE by HENRY HOWARD |
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