Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COUNTERSIGNS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poet's Biography First Line: Who has left the world alone Last Line: To good transmuting evil done. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge | ||||||||
WHO has left the world alone As though his heart were but a stone? Left innocence and the good will To torture and contempt, until The best souls born have bowed to ill? Who keeps silence when we ask? Like ogre in archangel's mask Peers down blandly through the sun And smooths all after the typhoon, Forgetting quickly the worst done? We men leave each other lone; Our hearts lie inert like stone. For our good we have used wrong, Tuned other's woe to a sweet song, And remembered no shame long. Yet through gloom have shone a few Spirits wholly kindled, who Set at naught the odds and won, Dared be kinder than the sun To good transmuting evil done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SILENCE SINGS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE THE DYING SWAN by THOMAS STURGE MOORE THESEUS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE A MIDNIGHT ECSTASY by THOMAS STURGE MOORE A TORRENT: 2 by THOMAS STURGE MOORE ALCESTIS IS SPOKEN OF by THOMAS STURGE MOORE ALCESTIS SPEAKS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE AN OLD SNATCH DREAMED OVER by THOMAS STURGE MOORE BEFORE REREADING SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS by THOMAS STURGE MOORE |
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