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Rock and Hawk

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(1887 - 1962) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.

This gray rock, standing tall
On the headland, where the seawind
Lets no tree grow,

Earthquake-proved, and signatured
By ages of storms: on its peak
A falcon has perched.

I think, here is your emblem
To hang in the future sky;
Not the cross, not the hive,

But this; bright power, dark peace;
Fierce consciousness joined with final
Disinterestedness;

Life with calm death; the falcon's
Realist eyes and act
Married to the massive

Mysticism of stone,
Which failure cannot cast down
Nor success make proud.

 

 

 

Themes

  Bower
  Death
  Garden
  Honey
  Mountain


Recommended Books


Cawdor and Medea, by Robinson Jeffers
The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Vol. 3, 1939-1962, by Robinson Jeffers
Excesses of God: Robinson Jeffers As a Religious Figure, by William Everson
The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, by Robinson Jeffers

 

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