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Archibald MacLeish - You, Andrew Marvell

And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night

To feel creep up the curving east
The earthy chill of dusk and slow
Upon those under lands the vast
And ever climbing shadow grow

And strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange
The flooding dark about their knees
The mountains over Persia change

And now at Kermanshah the gate
Dark empty and the withered grass
And through the twilight now the late
Few travelers in the westward pass

And Baghdad darken and the bridge
Across the silent river gone
And through Arabia the edge
Of evening widen and steal on

And deepen on Palmyra's street
The wheel rut in the ruined stone
And Lebanon fade out and Crete
High through the clouds and overblown

And over Sicily the air
Still flashing with the landward gulls
And loom and slowly disappear
The sails above the shadowy hulls

And Spain go under the the shore
Of Africa the gilded sand
And evening vanish and no more
The low pale light across that land

Nor now the long light on the sea

And here face downward in the sun
To feel how swift how secretly
The shadow of the night comes on...

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Poet: Archibald MacLeish
Poem: You, Andrew Marvell

Comment 5 of 5, added on January 24th, 2008 at 5:23 PM.

To understand the poem, you need first to read Marvell's poem, "To His Coy Mistress", written in the 17th C.--a great poem about love and the passage of Time.

G. Zetzel from United States
Comment 4 of 5, added on June 26th, 2007 at 8:25 AM.

please give me your comments about what this is about i have to wriite a comparrison to the passionate shephard to his love thanks

issibella Peyton from United States
Comment 3 of 5, added on April 23rd, 2006 at 9:52 AM.

THIS POEM IS ABOUT TH U.S MORE THAN ANY OTHER THING.ITS POWER ALL ABOUT THE WORLD ESPCIALLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST . THERE IS ALSO CARPIDIEM (OR SORT OF!)AND MANY IMAGES AND BEAUTIFUL DESCRIPTION OF I.R.IRAN AND SO.

monika from Iran

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