John Hall Wheelock
Who is John Hall Wheelock
John Hall Wheelock (September 9, 1886 – March 22, 1978) was an American poet. He was a descendant of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College.
The son of William Efner Wheelock and Emily Charlotte Hall, John Hall Wheelock was born in Far Rockaway, New York, and brought up in the neighborhood now occupied by Rockefeller Center. He summered in a family home on Long Island's South Fork, which provided inspiration for much of his work.Wheelock's parents encouraged the reading and memorization of poetry, and told of the time when they had seen the great poet Walt Whitman, when John was a baby.
My father held me up on a ferryboat...and said: 'Do you see that man?' He turned my head... toward Whitman, who was standing in the bow of the boat, and he said, 'That is the gr...
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John Hall Wheelock Poems
- The Unknown Belovèd
I dreamed I passed a doorway
Where, for a sign of death,
White ribbons one was binding
About a flowery wreath....
- Nirvana
Sleep on-I lie at heaven's high oriels,
Over the stars that murmur as they go
Lighting your lattice-window far below;
And every star some of the glory spells...
- Love Knocks At The Door
In the pain, in the loneliness of love,
To the heart of my sweet I fled.
I knocked at the door of her living heart,
“Let in-let in-” I said....
- Life
Life burns us up like fire,
And Song goes up in flame:
The radiant body smoulders
To the ashes whence it came....
- Exile From God
I do not fear to lay my body down
In death, to share
The life of the dark earth and lose my own,
If God is there....
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- Justintarquin: "a planet doesn’t explode of itself," said drily
the martian astronomer, gazing off into the air.
"that they were able to do it is proof that highly
intelligent beings must have been living there."
—“earth”, john hall wheelock
- Poemanalysis: ‘earth’ by john hall wheelock is a short poem that addresses humanity’s intelligence. it features a martian astronomer who is considering what happened to planet earth.
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- Specgram: a child, when it begins to speak, learns what it is that it knows. —john hall wheelock
- Scifrey: earth
by john hall wheelock (1886-1978)
"a planet doesn’t explode of itself," said drily
the martian astronomer, gazing off into the air.
"that they were able to do it is proof that highly
intelligent beings must have been living there."
- Fredalewkowicz: this poem!
"a planet doesn’t explode of itself," said drily
the martian astronomer, gazing off into the air.
"that they were able to do it is proof that highly
intelligent beings must have been living there."
(earth by john hall wheelock)
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