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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEME AND VARIATION, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, man | |||
I Fossil, fuchsia, mantis, 1nan1 fire and water, earth and air all things alter even as I behold, all things alter, the stranger said. Alter, become a something more, a something less. Are the reveling shadows of a changing permanence. Are, are not and same and other, the stranger said. II I sense, he said, the lurking rush, the sly transience flickering at the edge of things. I've spied from the corner of my eye upon the striptease of reality. There is, there is, he said, an imminence that turns to curiosa all I know·· that changes light to rainbow darknes wherein God waylays us and empowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...POOR DEVIL! by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET CHERRY BLOSSOMS BLOWING IN WEST BLOWING SNOW by JAMES GALVIN A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK THE AEOLIAN HARP; AT THE SURF INN by HERMAN MELVILLE MY GHOSTS by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS A GIRL'S SONG ON HER LOVER, PAIDIN RUADH by CHARLES BEWLEY TO A LADY FOR A NOSEGAY by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: 'MEDIO DE FONTE LEPORUM SURGIT AMARI..' by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |
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