LIKE crystal torrents perfect in desire For all the winds of sea and waves that fill The gulf whereon day trails his robes of fire, So moves man's dominant will. 'Mid iron hammers that clang and then vibrate, Falling and intermingling in one tone, So does his force stand forging shapes of fate To cast them into the city, one by one. As some red bomb that bursts on towers of might, So does his soul explode and shake the earth, Into new cataclysms of convulsive death, Into light-leaping new fires of red birth. His song of songs, sun-drunken tragic Queen, He scatters delirious like gold rain adown Your nights and like red roses down your days, His song of songs, merged in one mighty tone. And from his heart's dance-rhythms evermore It struggles in dazzling spasms, seeking higher To shatter its broken and triumphant spray, In new invincible violence of desire! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BROTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ON THE BIRTH OF A CHILD by LOUIS UNTERMEYER SPRING by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY A SKETCH by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS (MIDNIGHT, SEPT. 19-20, 1881) by WALT WHITMAN LUCY (1) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, BY OUR OWN TOM DALY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |