Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HOPE, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE


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First Line: See through yon cloud that rolls in wrath
Last Line: Will smile amid affliction's night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


SEE through yon cloud that rolls in wrath,
One little star benignant peep,
To light along their trackless path
The wanderers of the stormy deep.

And thus, oh Hope! thy lovely form
In sorrow's gloomy night shall be
The sun that looks through cloud and storm
Upon a dark and moonless sea.

When heaven is all serene and fair,
Full many a brighter gem we meet;
'Tis when the tempest hovers there,
Thy beam is most divinely sweet.

The rainbow, when the sun declines,
Like faithless friend will disappear;
Thy light, dear star! more brightly shines
When all is wail and weeping here.

And though Aurora's stealing beam
May wake a morning of delight,
'Tis only thy consoling beam
Will smile amid affliction's night.







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