Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NIHIL HUMANI ALIENUM, by TITUS MUNSON COAN


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

NIHIL HUMANI ALIENUM, by                    
First Line: In the loud waking world I come and go
Last Line: From nothing human let me hold apart!
Subject(s): Brotherhood


IN the loud waking world I come and go,
And yet the twofold gates of dreams are mine;
I have been the battle-lightnings round me shine,
And won the stillness of Hawaiian snow;
The votary's sad surrender do I know;
Joy have I had of passion and of wine;
Nor shines the light of poesy less divine
Though science's white cressets round me glow.
Yet never in me are these things at feud;
They make one sum of rapture; in my heart
Their memories rise and glow, a living good;
Dreams, banquets, battles, prayers, carousals, art,
All form for me a vital brotherhood;
From nothing human let me hold apart!





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net