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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. NOT THE ACCEPTED TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: Amid all the turmoil and the care - the worry, the fever, the anxiety Last Line: Does the vast ever-present beneath reveal its perfect rondure. Subject(s): Peace | |||
AMID all the turmoil and the care—the worry, the fever, the anxiety, The gloomy outlook, fears, forebodings. The effort to keep up with the rush of supposed necessities, supposed duties, The effort to catch the flying point of light, to reach the haven of Peace—always in the future— Amid all, glides in the little word Now. As when the winds of March with their long brooms sweep the dead leaves from the surface of the ground, and the Earth in virgin beauty with the growing grass once more appears; So when all this debris of thought from the Past, of anxiety about the Morrow, is at last swept away, Does the vast ever-Present beneath reveal its perfect rondure. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MANY NIGHTS by GALWAY KINNELL THE MOTTO by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE TRUE BEATITUDE by RUPERT BROOKE MAKING PEACE by DENISE LEVERTOV TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1 by YEHUDA AMICHAI TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2 by YEHUDA AMICHAI AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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