The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother.
You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb and lay in the sun's eye on the tideline. It was long and long ago; we have grown proud since then and you have grown bitter; life retains
Your mobile soft unquiet strength; and envies hardness, the insolent quietness of stone.


"Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)

Robinson Jeffers Quotes

The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother. You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb...

The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother. You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb...

The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother. You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb...

The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother. You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb...