Poems
THEME/S
Earth's roof is heaven's floor—
The dome of mind
Must bear a trampling terror
Before we find
Through a sudden gap the mythic
Eternity alive!
It cannot reach our body
Ere hard heels drive
Deep into gilded dreams
Arching a false
Heaven for life's sad longing.
Secretly calls
The true infinitude-
Gong of God's day
Or bells of unknown bliss
Tintinning far away.
But who shall ever answer
The bourneless blue
Unless the proud dome break
Its stony hue
Under an unseen dancer's
Timeless foot—
Rapture whose rhythms are
A tearing of thought?
Some drunkenness on high
Demands the whole
Destruction of each fresco
Made of the soul
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On the ceiling intellect,
Where never a chink has drawn
Out of the sun of Truth
The dimmest dawn!
Not for a smooth confirming
Of coloured guess,
But for an all-surprising
New loveliness
The mind must s rain—a curve
Pulled more and more intent
With a hush that has no name,
Till one sheer rent
Aches forth the marvel word
Whose quiverings make
Each deathless mystery
Timeward awake!
Alone this burst of love,
The crumbling cry
Of earth's rich roof, can bring
The apocalypt sky.
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