Nature
Irradiations: XXIII
From Irradiations: Sand and Spray (1915)
Nature
Torridly the moon rolls upward
Against the smooth immensity of midsummer sky,
Changeless, inexhaustible:
The city beneath is still:
Heaven and Earth are clasped together,
Momently life grows as careless
As the life of the intense stars.
Out of the houses climbing,
Fuming up windows, flickering from every roof-top,
Rigid on sonorous pinnacles,
Silently swirl aloft
Love's infinite flamelets.
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Fletcher, John Gould. “Irradiations: XXIII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher/27/.
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Fletcher, John Gould. “Irradiations: XXIII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fletcher/27/.
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