{"id":849,"date":"2014-10-24T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=849"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:50:09","slug":"carl-sandberg-no-beautiful-thing-lasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/10\/24\/carl-sandberg-no-beautiful-thing-lasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Sandberg – “no beautiful thing lasts”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, \u00a0October 22 \u00a0\u201cVanity of Vanities, all is Vanity”<\/p>\n

Carl Sandburg paints autumn’s stunning, passing beauty in a few blunt words. \u00a0To which I am inclined to add, \u201cNothing wrong with grief over the passing of exquisite beauty.\u201d \u00a0 Further down, Qoheleth (in Ecclesiastes) joins Sandburg in singing an old lament \u2013 one worth repeating.\u00a0 Good reading now and then to respect the human capacity for gloom on hard days.<\/p>\n

Have a great weekend. \u00a0Regular posts begin Monday.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

Carl Sandburg: “Autumn Movement”
\n<\/a>Posted by Phyllis Cole-Dai on Oct 15, 2014 12:00 am<\/em><\/p>\n

\"AutumnMovement\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing
\nlasts.<\/p>\n

The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the
\ncopper sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the
\ntaker of seeds.<\/p>\n

The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of
\nholes, new beautiful things come in the first spit of
\nsnow on the northwest wind, and the old things go,
\nnot one lasts.<\/p>\n

\"Carl-Sandburg\"<\/a>“Autumn Movement” by\u00a0Carl Sandburg<\/a>.<\/b>\u00a0Published in\u00a0Poetry<\/i>\u00a0(October, 1918).\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Art credit:\u00a0<\/i>“Yellow Cornflowers,”\u00a0photograph<\/b><\/a>\u00a0taken at\u00a0Brisbane City Botanic Garden, Australia, November 7, 2010,\u00a0by\u00a0Hopeisland<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, \u00a0October 22 \u00a0\u201cVanity of Vanities, all is Vanity” Carl Sandburg paints autumn’s stunning, passing beauty in a few blunt words. \u00a0To which I am inclined to add, \u201cNothing wrong with grief over the passing of exquisite beauty.\u201d \u00a0 Further … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11641],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}