"Still beneath / Live skin stone breathes, about which fires but play, / Fierce heart that is the iced brain's to command / To judgment -- studied reflex, contained breath) -- / Their best of worlds since, on the ordained day, / This world went spinning from Jehovah's hand."
— Hill, Geoffrey (b. 1932)
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Work Title
Date
1959
Metaphor
"Still beneath / Live skin stone breathes, about which fires but play, / Fierce heart that is the iced brain's to command / To judgment -- studied reflex, contained breath) -- / Their best of worlds since, on the ordained day, / This world went spinning from Jehovah's hand."
Metaphor in Context
Deceives with sweetness harshness. Still beneath
Live skin stone breathes, about which fires but play,
Fierce heart that is the iced brain's to command
To judgment -- studied reflex, contained breath) --
Their best of worlds since, on the ordained day,
This world went spinning from Jehovah's hand.
(p. 19, ll. 9-14)
Live skin stone breathes, about which fires but play,
Fierce heart that is the iced brain's to command
To judgment -- studied reflex, contained breath) --
Their best of worlds since, on the ordained day,
This world went spinning from Jehovah's hand.
(p. 19, ll. 9-14)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Hill, Geoffrey. Somewhere is Such a Kingdom: Poems, 1952-1971 Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.
Date of Entry
11/24/2010
