Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOMETHING BEYOND, by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON Poet's Biography First Line: Something beyond! Though now, with joy unfound Last Line: Brightens the now. Alternate Author Name(s): Clemmer, Mary; Ames, Mary Clemmer Subject(s): Consolation; Immortality | ||||||||
Something beyond! though now, with joy unfound, The life-task falleth from thy weary hand, Be brave, be patient! In the fair beyond Thou'lt understand. Thou'lt understand why our most royal hours Couch sorrowful slaves bound by low nature's greed; Why the celestial soul's a minion made To narrowest need. In this pent sphere of being incomplete, The imperfect fragment of a beauteous whole, For yon rare regions, where the perfect meet, Sighs the lone soul. Sighs for the perfect! Far and fair it lies; It hath no half-fed friendships perishing fleet, No partial insights, no averted eyes, No loves unmeet. Something beyond! Light for our clouded eyes! In this dark dwelling, in its shrouded beams. Our best waits masked, few pierce the soul's disguise; How sad it seems! Something beyond! Ah, if it were not so, Darker would be thy face, O brief To-day; Earthward we'd bow beneath life's smiting woe, Powerless to pray. Something beyond! the immortal morning stands Above the night; clear shines her precious brow; The pendulous star in her transfigured hands Brightens the Now. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS by ROBERT BLY DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING by DAVID IGNATOW I CLOSE MY EYES by DAVID IGNATOW IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION by MARIANNE MOORE THE THINGS THAT DIE by GREGORY ORR THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON YOUTH'S IMMORTALITY by GEORGE SANTAYANA MOTHER-LOVE by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON |
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