Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AUTHENICATE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND First Line: God of the hills, the seas, a granite wall Last Line: The virtue of unshorn samson ... In the market to bare! Subject(s): God; Prayer; Strength | ||||||||
God of the hills, the seas, a granite wall Pillared of Hercules' shoulder and girt of his might Give of your strength! I call as the Dead might call: Crash the deep darkness of methat I be Light! Strength would I, God, but not by Achilles' heel, Bound to a thing that menacing time may steal. Blood-marked, my pathI cry no compassioning breast; My certitude, forge it of iron, unharried by jest Of living, of dying ... till defying all gods would I dare The virtue of unshorn Samson ... in the market to bare! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL RESENTMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH FRESCOES FOR MR. ROCKEFELLER'S CITY: BACKGROUND WITH REVOLUTIONARIES by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH HERE IS THE STRONG ONE, THE OTHER ONE' by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER HIS SPEED AND STRENGTH by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER A STUDY IN RED; FROM THE OLD MASTERS by HALA JEAN HAMMOND |
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