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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ARCHITECTS, by EDITH CLAIRE CAM First Line: Pythagoras, the wise, who in those lost days Last Line: Is to rebuild the world. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Pythagorus (580-500 B.c.) | |||
Pythagoras, the wise, who in those lost days Before the coming of the age of light, Wrought mightily to pierce the veil of mystery That hid the face of night. . . . Said once to an aspiring youth who sought In vain to cast a temple-plan, "Go find your measurements from life, Build in the shadow of a Man." Far-sighted wisdom had the sage. His words the rolling years outran And prophesied beyond the veil of time The coming of the Man. But when He came for all the world, The world set all His worth at loss And in the shadow of the Man Could only build a Cross. Disdaining to employ the shadow of the Man, Now is the vengeance on us hurled, Within the shadow of the Cross, our task Is to rebuild the world. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PYTHAGORAS AND THE DOG by XENOPHANES LINE OF VERSE OF YEATS by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 15: THE TEACHINGS OF PYTHAGORUS by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO SPRING BLIZZARD by JAMES GALVIN FUNERAL HYMN by LOUIS UNTERMEYER AMERICA by ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE BROWNING AT ASOLO by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON SOLDIER: TWENTIETH CENTURY by ISAAC ROSENBERG THE EUMENIDES: THE FURIES' PRAYER by AESCHYLUS |
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