Would You Like To Read A Robinson Jeffers Poem?
I’ve always loved this poem and thought you might enjoy reading this.
“Promise of Peace” by: Robinson Jeffers
The heads of strong old age are beautiful
Beyond all grace of youth. They have strange quiet,
Integrity, health, soundness, to the full
They’ve dealt with life and been attempered by it.
A young man must not sleep; his years are war
Civil and foreign but the former’s worse;
But the old can breathe in safety now that they are
Forgetting what youth meant, the being perverse,
Running the fool’s gauntlet and being cut
By the whips of the five senses. As for me,
If I should wish to live long it were but
To trade those fevers for tranquility,
Thinking though that’s entire and sweet in the grave
How shall the dead taste the deep treasure they have?
I’m interested to know if you like this as much as I do. Thanks for your comments.
I don’t recall ever reading anything by Jeffers.
I like this and thank you for sharing it.
It is one that needs to be read several times and then kept where you can read it often.
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