Ronald Johnson
A Line of Poetry, A Row of Trees
"Four Orphic Poems & A Song"
NewtonStellar — the shortening lines — a sort of free fall for the mind.
— it is said — did not show the cause of an apple falling,
only the similitude between the apple
& the stars.
Kenneth Hopkins Collected Poems 1935-1965
"It was a Fatal Silence"
Concluding couplet to the sonnet
This love, though great, is gone, though deep, is done,I have known Hopkins as an epigramist of note. Here much of his strength comes to the fore. Though great, though deep, though precious — the description could pertain to the very verse describing the great love. But here at least there are some that seek and bring back.
Though precious, spent, seeking, is sought of none.
