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Harvest

by Kathleen Raine

Kathleen Raine

Day is the hero's shield,
Achilles' field,
The light days are the angels.
We the seed.

Against eternal light and gorgon's face
Day is the shield
And we the grass
Native to fields of iron, and skies of brass.




Quotes of the Day

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
• Francois de La Rochefoucauld


Poems of the Day
  • Henry van Dyke
    The Snow-Field
    by Henry van Dyke
    White Death had laid his pall upon the plain, And crowned the mountain-peaks like monarchs dead; The vault of heaven was glaring overhead With pitiless light that filled my eyes with pain;