The Country of the Blind (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men, Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long Process, ...
Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men, Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long Process, ...
Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation ...
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is ...
About suffering, about adoration, the old masters Disagree. When someone suffers, no one else eats Or walks or opens the ...
The telephone company calls and asks what the fuss is. Betty from the telephone company, who's not concerned with the ...
it's 1962 March 28th I'm sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train night is falling I never knew I ...
Like Paul, we yearn we struggle for meaning trying to be righteous not in the abstract not in writings but ...
Not something abstract the people who came before you crying out for assistance for dignity each day Crying for you ...
A piece of the creator of eternity planted in each of us as he has planned it The words of ...
Not some abstract lesson a recitation of the law the question of the lawyer needing to a parable a real-life ...
Little comfort in the scriptures except in the abstract the real-world issues staring us in the face Trial in the ...
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Free of memory and of hope, limitless, abstract, almost future, the dead man is not a dead man: he is ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
some say we should keep personal remorse from the poem, stay abstract, and there is some reason in this, but ...
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
AFRICA I will sing you a song of Los. the Eternal Prophet: He sung it to four harps at the ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
1. A conversation begins with a lie. and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the ...
The windless northern surge, the sea-gull's scream, And Calvin's kirk crowning the barren brae. I think of Giotto the Tuscan ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
to find the origin, trace back the manifestations. Tao Between being and non-being barely there these sails of water, ice, ...
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