Trumbull Stickney Earth Poems

  • 1.
    These are my murmur-laden shells that keep
    A fresh voice tho' the years be very gray.
    The wave that washed their lips and tuned their lay
    Is gone, gone with the faded ocean sweep,
    ...
  • 2.
    It 's autumn in the country I remember.

    How warm a wind blew here about the ways!
    And shadows on the hillside lay to slumber
    ...
  • 3.
    Only once more and not again--the larches
    Shake to the wind their echo, "Not again,"--
    We see, below the sky that over-arches
    Heavy and blue, the plain
    ...
  • 4.
    And, the last day being come, Man stood alone
    Ere sunrise on the world's dismantled verge,
    Awaiting how from everywhere should urge
    The Coming of the Lord. And, behold, none
    ...
  • 5.
    They lived enamoured of the lovely moon,
    The dawn and twilight on their gentle lake.
    Then Passion marvellously born did shake
    Their breast and drave them into the mid-noon.
    ...
  • 6.
    Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord,
    Who was the Future, died full long ago.
    Knowledge which is the Past is folly. Go,
    Poor child, and be not to thyself abhorred.
    ...
Total 6 Earth Poems by Trumbull Stickney

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