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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CARRISO GORGE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD First Line: Eastward the wise men sought to find a pass Last Line: And spun his steel along carriso gorge. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Carrizo Gorge, California; Mountain Passes | |||
Eastward the wise men sought to find a pass Where steel could lie and stretch its glistening limbs, Where steam could whistle from its lips of brass And continental traffic shriek its hymns; But from the javelined San Diego Bay Across the chaos of the mountains' girth There is no place where nature made a way To reach her empire burgeoned on the earth. A hundred million boulders piled on high While over age-dead heights the eagles pass— God's hands flung down those mountains burnt and dry, Yet in the cañons' depths grow tufts of grass; Then came a man whose dream was not forespent— Where mauve and orange lit the panicled forge He built a road, hewed out a monument And spun his steel along Carriso Gorge. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SIGN by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD TOO LATE THE GIFT by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD THE SHAPE OF THE CORONER by WALLACE STEVENS IF by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS LESSER EPISTLES: TO BERNARD LINTOTT by JOHN GAY THE BELLS OF LONDON by MOTHER GOOSE TO HARTLEY COLERIDGE; SIX YEARS OLD by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH MOUNT PIERUS by ANTIPATER OF SIDON SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 39. NOT CHRIST, BUT CHRIST'S GOD by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |
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