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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON HEARING ... GOV. FULLER SANCTIONED THE MURDER OF SACCHO & VANZETTI, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poet's Biography First Line: I love the forests of the lightning where Last Line: Crush man, the idiot ape, the spawn of cain! Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Sacco-vanzetti Case (1921) | |||
I love the forests of the lightning where White-hot and terrible trees with purple boughs Shake down the rain, like wild leaves, through the air, And then fall crashing on the mountains' brows. The storm without me is the storm within: The lightnings make white forests in my soul: Within my spirit roars earth's stress and din: Within my mind the mightier thunders roll. Fall, fall great livid sky-upholding trees! Fall, fall and shatter all our human world! Fall like doom's conscious Caryatides And let high heaven to deep hell be hurled. Crush man, the angel with the maggot's brain: Crush man, the idiot ape, the spawn of Cain! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JUSTICE DENIED IN MASSACHUSETTS by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE CONDEMNED by WITTER BYNNER AUGUST 22ND: A RED LETTER DAY by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG CLIMBING MILESTONE MOUNTAIN, AUGUST 22, 1937 by KENNETH REXROTH PARADE THE NARROW TURRETS by LUCIA TRENT THEY ARE DEAD NOW by JOHN DOS PASSOS SACCO-VANZETTI by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN SACCO-VANZETTI by MOYSHE-LEYB HALPERN CARPENTER OF ETERNITY by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT |
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