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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CARRISO GORGE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD First Line: Eastward the wise men sought to find a pass Last Line: And spun his steel along carriso gorge. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Carrizo Gorge, California; Mountain Passes | |||
Eastward the wise men sought to find a pass Where steel could lie and stretch its glistening limbs, Where steam could whistle from its lips of brass And continental traffic shriek its hymns; But from the javelined San Diego Bay Across the chaos of the mountains' girth There is no place where nature made a way To reach her empire burgeoned on the earth. A hundred million boulders piled on high While over age-dead heights the eagles pass God's hands flung down those mountains burnt and dry, Yet in the cañons' depths grow tufts of grass; Then came a man whose dream was not forespent Where mauve and orange lit the panicled forge He built a road, hewed out a monument And spun his steel along Carriso Gorge. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SIGN by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD TOO LATE THE GIFT by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT by ALEXANDER POPE BY WAY OF EXPLANATION by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN MORNING MIST by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 5. THE EXILE by ALBERTA BANCROFT THE THEME AND THE PUPPET by LETA GRACE BORLAND AN ODD CONCEIT by NICHOLAS BRETON BLANK MISGIVINGS OF A CREATURE MOVING ABOUT IN WORLDS NOT REALIZED: 8 by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH |
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