Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 1, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poet's Biography First Line: Cut loose! Hoist sail! Leave the famililar shores Last Line: On shores of truth that always lie beyond! Subject(s): Truth | ||||||||
Cut loose! Hoist sail! Leave the familiar shores Of life! Drive out on love's enormous wind Far from the safe small pieties and blind Tangles of conscience! O set wide the doors And throw the strong arms open utterly! Go forth reckless with faith and unresigned, Thus only seeking shall you surely find The peril and rapture of true liberty! Thus only shall divine discoveries Stretch the vague margins of the conscious soul And fire the peaks of more inclusive skies; Thus may we burst the self-created bond Of sordid fears and hear life's surges roll On shores of truth that always lie beyond! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INCLINED TO SPEAK by LAWRENCE JOSEPH WHAT IS TRUTH? by JOHN BOWRING EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL by DENISE LEVERTOV LYING MY HEAD OFF by CATE MARVIN TRUTH SERUM by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY A SONG FOR REVOLUTION by GEORGE CABOT LODGE |
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