MAN needs no dread unwonted Avatar The secrets of the heavenly host to show; From waves of light, their lustrous founts we know, For every gleaming band and shadowed bar Is fraught with homelike tidings from afar; Each ripple, starting long decades ago, Pulsing to earth its blue or golden glow, Beats with the life of some immortal star. A life to each minutest atom given -- Whether it find in Man's own heart a place, Or past the suns, in unimagined space -- That Earth may know herself a part of Heaven, And see, wherever sun or spark is lit, One Law, one Life, one Substance infinite. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IVY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE MAN WITH THE WOODEN LEG by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE DAY AND THE WORK by EDWIN MARKHAM SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JAMES GARBER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS IS YOUR TOWN NINEVEH? by MARIANNE MOORE |