Is it not by his high superfluousness we know
Our God? For to equal a need
Is natural, animal, mineral: but to fling
Rainbows over the rain
And beauty above the moon, and secret rainbows
On the domes of deep sea-shells,
And make the necessary embrace of breeding
Beautiful also as fire,
Not even the weeds to multiply without blossom
Nor the birds without music:
There is the great humaneness at the heart of things,
The extravagant kindness, the fountain
Humanity can understand, and would flow likewise
If power and desire were perch-mates.
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The Selected Poetry Of Robinson Jeffers
PoetryAll poems belong to Robinson Jeffers. I own nothing. Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) is a major voice in twentieth-century American poetry, a poetic alternative to the high modernism of Eliot and Pound. An important figure for contemporary poets who ha...
