The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke

Author:Theodore Roethke [Roethke, Theodore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76047-0
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-12-14T05:00:00+00:00

A WALK IN LATE SUMMER

1

A gull rides on the ripples of a dream,

White upon white, slow-settling on a stone;

Across my lawn the soft-backed creatures come;

In the weak light they wander, each alone.

Bring me the meek, for I would know their ways;

I am a connoisseur of midnight eyes.

The small! The small! I hear them singing clear

On the long banks, in the soft summer air.

2

What is there for the soul to understand?

The slack face of the dismal pure inane?

The wind dies down; my will dies with the wind,

God’s in that stone, or I am not a man!

Body and soul transcend appearances

Before the caving-in of all that is;

I’m dying piecemeal, fervent in decay;

My moments linger—that’s eternity.

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