July Fourth By The Ocean (Robinson Jeffers Poem)
The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains, Powerful and servile; here is for plowland, here is for park ...
The continent's a tamed ox, with all its mountains, Powerful and servile; here is for plowland, here is for park ...
The old voice of the ocean, the bird-chatter of little rivers, (Winter has given them gold for silver To stain ...
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The ...
I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Above the deep river-canyon. There was a little cataract ...
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze ...
While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire And protest, only a bubble in ...
Our sardine fishermen work at night in the dark of the moon; daylight or moonlight They could not tell where ...
That public men publish falsehoods Is nothing new. That America must accept Like the historical republics corruption and empire Has ...
Seventy years ago my mother labored to bear me, A twelve-pound baby with a big head, Her first, it was ...
I The broken pillar of the wing jags from the clotted shoulder, The wing trails like a banner in defeat, ...
There is a hawk that is picking the birds out of our sky, She killed the pigeons of peace and ...
The heroic stars spending themselves, Coining their very flesh into bullets for the lost battle, They must burn out at ...
Unhappy about some far off things That are not my affair, wandering Along the coast and up the lean ridges, ...
This country least, but every inhabited country Is clotted with human anguish. Remember that at your feasts. And this is ...
I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened And forecast victory; never one moment's doubt. ...
When I was young in school in Switzerland, about the time of the Boer War, We used to take it ...
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