If this is all—one little ball Of transitory Earth, And we must fall, at Death's last call, Like apples—no more worth; Why do the stars make pathways for my eyes, The moon with melody fill all the skies, Creation's anthem peal for each sunrise— If our Earth ball is all? If Life is meat and only meat, For one swift day—then Night, And I must eat my morsel sweet, E'er fades its fitful light; What means this surge within like mystic leaven, Why do my hungers reach from hell to heaven, My soul range universes seven times seven, If Life is only meat? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED by MICHAEL S. HARPER SONNET: 35 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE STRANGER by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA GREATER LOVE by ANTIPATER OF SIDON PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 33. AL-HALIM by EDWIN ARNOLD SHADOWS OF RECOLLECTION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |