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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAINT PAUL: 7, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah what a hope! And when afar it glistens
Last Line: Suffer with men and like a man be strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Variant Title(s): Saved By Hope;let Us Have Hope
Subject(s): Hope; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Optimism; Saul Of Tarsus
First Line: Ah what a hope! And when afar it glistens
Last Line: Suffer with men and like a man be strong.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Variant Title(s): Saved By Hope;let Us Have Hope
Subject(s): Hope; Paul, Saint (1st Century); Optimism; Saul Of Tarsus
Ah what a hope! and when afar it glistens
Stops the heart beating and the lips are dumb;
Inly my spirit to his silence listens,
Faints till she find him, quivers till he come.
Once for a night and day upon the splendid
Anger and solitude of seething sea
Almost I deemed mine agony was ended,
Nearly beheld thy Paradise and thee,—
Saw the deep heaving into ridges narrow,
Heard the blast bellow on its ocean-way,
Felt the soul freed and like a flaming arrow
Sped on Euroclydon thro' death to day.
Ah but not yet he took me from my prison,—
Left me a little while, nor left for long,—
Bade as one buried, bade as one arisen
Suffer with men and like a man be strong.
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