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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN SYMMETRY UNFINISHED, by PHILLIPS KLOSS First Line: Fearing life will stop, the navajo Last Line: In symmetry unfinished. | |||
Fearing life will stop, the Navajo Never quite complete a work of art; The pattern of a blanket which they start Must be slightly open for the flow Of spirit that may enter and may go As vitally and constant as a heart. The Hopi potters draw designs a part Of life, unclosed, unended, free to grow. And who but fears the sealed-in absolute? Fears to shut oneself within a line That cannot open out among the stars? Completion is so final and so mute Without the surge and soul of a design In symmetry unfinished. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPIRITUAL ISOLATION: A FRAGMENT by ISAAC ROSENBERG SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 1 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 52 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN TO ELIZABETH, COUNTESS OF RUTLAND by BEN JONSON THE LONELY CHILD by JAMES OPPENHEIM AMERICAN THEMES FOR A GILBERT by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |
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