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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NO MORE THAN THE SLOW STREAM, by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN First Line: No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight Last Line: Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean. Subject(s): Change; Nature | |||
No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight Lacing the swamp with intricate shining channels Patterned by wind and the dipping tall marsh grasses: No more the mica glint in the sliding water The bright-winged flies and the muskrat gone like a shadow No more the curved trout breaking concentric silver: Now the basalt cliffs and the yellow foam in the eddies Now the strong brown water boiling deeply from under Now the log abutment left where the bridge has fallen: O the slow stream lovely, lovely no more in sunlight: The flotsam of quiet lives turned over and over, The dark destructive flood; and the plan the promise Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN FROZEN FIRE by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN WHO HAS GONE THROUGH THE WOOD by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN LINES ON LEAVING THE BEDFORD STR. SCHOOL HOUSE by GEORGE SANTAYANA |
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