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DWill 
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 Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:24 am Post subject: Regarding the end of time
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How about a specialty thread? (Anyone should feel free to post new threads, by the way.) I've always been taken with the end of time/end of the world theme. I'd be very interested to find out about such poetry that I'm not familiar with. Here are two to start off. The first is just a section of Yeats' "The Secret Rose."
..............................................I, too, await
The hour of thy great wind of love and hate.
When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
Surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows,
Far off, most secret, and inviolate Rose?
Once By the Pacific
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last "Put out the Light" was spoken.
Robt. Frost |
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