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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BRIGHT DARK, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING First Line: Forever conscript to profoundest dark Last Line: Assume terrestial orbit with the sun's. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Dead, The | |||
Forever conscript to profoundest dark, Yet still in flesh a consort with her kind, For her the soaring heavens flame and spark, Their terrible beauty regnant in her mind. For her, whatever shadow moved like mist, Still courses through her veins the trenchant press Of body's passion and the fruitful tryst Of sense and substance in a dark caress. No dark too deep but what her clasp can fold The seed that blooms the orchid, while the flame Of utterest anguish rectifies to gold, And death's intolerable nameless have a name. The vague Equator and the vaguer Pole Fuse to a meaning, and we sighted ones Behold the gloriole within her soul Assume terrestial orbit with the sun's. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND ACQUISITION by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING |
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