tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post1143980187918790659..comments2023-09-26T08:04:43.755-07:00Comments on Mark Doty: Even all night longMark Dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-10517527021000667532011-02-02T06:17:19.633-08:002011-02-02T06:17:19.633-08:00I'm so glad you can read again. And glad you ...I'm so glad you can read again. And glad you found the perfect poem.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-47815515703818972732011-01-30T08:29:04.161-08:002011-01-30T08:29:04.161-08:00thank you for this poem, and for letting us know s...thank you for this poem, and for letting us know so beautifully how it is to read again. anew.Janet Isserlishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12008998393476998882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-47041532858209777682011-01-29T20:32:48.573-08:002011-01-29T20:32:48.573-08:00Summer
Some men there are who find in nature all
...Summer<br /><br />Some men there are who find in nature all<br />Their inspiration, hers the sympathy<br />Which spurs them on to any great endeavor,<br />To them the fields and woods are closest friends,<br />And they hold dear communion with the hills;<br />The voice of waters soothes them with its fall,<br />And the great winds bring healing in their sound.<br />To them a city is a prison house<br />Where pent up human forces labour and strive,<br />Where beauty dwells not, driven forth by man;<br />But where in winter they must live until<br />Summer gives back the spaces of the hills.<br />To me it is not so. I love the earth<br />And all the gifts of her so lavish hand:<br />Sunshine and flowers, rivers and rushing winds,<br />Thick branches swaying in a winter storm,<br />And moonlight playing in a boat's wide wake;<br />But more than these, and much, ah, how much more,<br />I love the very human heart of man.<br /><br />Amy LowellCoirí Filíochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.com