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Mossheart, a Cento

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Today some things worked as they were meant to.

Mine are the night and morning,

the power that gives with liberal hand.

Tell me the world. Here comes light, unspoken.

Is this a time to be cloudy and sad,

“O Dreary life!” we cry, “O dreary life!” when

the fate of the land is the fate of man?

Hello cherry tree and badger nest.

The salt of the rain falls as hail as

Night bares her sable brow.



Line 1: https://poets.org/poem/oh-nature (“Oh Nature” by Bruce Weigl)

Line 2: https://poets.org/poem/song-nature (“Song of Nature” by Ralph Emerson)

Line 3: https://poets.org/poem/religion-nature (“On the Religion of Nature” by Philip Freneau

Line 4: https://poets.org/poem/natural-history (“Natural History” by Rebecca Lehmann)

Line 5: https://poets.org/poem/gladness-nature (“The Gladness of Nature” by William Bryant)

Line 6: https://poets.org/poem/patience-taught-nature (“Patience Taught by Nature” by Elizabeth Browning)

Line 8: Basho

Line 9: https://poets.org/poem/sea-poem-annex-so-we-may-dream-backwards (“sea of the poem (an annex so we may dream backwards)” by Raquel Rivera)

Line 10: https://poets.org/poem/night-love (“Night of Love” by Paul Dunbar)


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