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FRAGMENT by AMY LOWELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT IS POETRY? IT IS A MOSAIC
Last Line: WITH STORIED MEANING FOR RELIGION'S SAKE.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS; RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
What is poetry? Is it a mosaic
Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought
Into a pattern? Rather glass that's taught
By patient labor any hue to take
And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make
Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught,
Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught
With storied meaning for religion's sake.






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