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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVERGREEN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poet's Biography First Line: Though thieving centuries grip ageing trees Last Line: And clouds enough to thunder rain on death! Subject(s): Clouds; Cypress Trees; Rain | |||
Though thieving centuries grip ageing trees and strip them gray of foliage and fruit and bring the weary roots themselves surcease only after their sap is frozen mute, The cypresses maintain their phallic faith, that skies, in their majestic double round, have suns and moons enough to sunder clouds -- and clouds enough to thunder rain on death! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DISTANT RAINFALL by ROBINSON JEFFERS CHAMBER MUSIC: 32 by JAMES JOYCE HEAVY SUMMER RAIN by JANE KENYON CROWD CORRALLING by MARGARET AVISON THE RAIN-POOL by KARLE WILSON BAKER ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY by KENNETH KOCH FESTOONS OF FISHES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG PEEWEE by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG ..... AND WHITE THE WHITE INVOKES by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG |
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