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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GENESIS, by JOHN HALL INGHAM First Line: Did chaos form - and water, air, and fire Last Line: Might be once more the worm, the rock, the tree? | |||
DID Chaos form, -- and water, air, and fire, Rocks, trees, the worm, work toward Humanity, -- That Man at last, beneath the churchyard spire, Might be once more the worm, the rock, the tree? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SUMMER SANCTUARY by JOHN HALL INGHAM THE WINDMILL by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES IN THE HOLY NATIVITY [OF OUR LORD GOD]; AS SUNG BY SHEPHERDS by RICHARD CRASHAW DEATH OF THE DAY by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR TO MUSIC; A FRAGMENT by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY WHAT SAID THE LITTLE ADMIRAL? by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE DAIMYO'S POND by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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