Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW YEAR SONG, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: We climb the hill; the mist conceals Last Line: Your longed-for flower of liberty? Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Socialism | ||||||||
WE climb the hill; the mist conceals That valley where we could not stay; Surely this hill's crest, gained, reveals The glory of the sunlit day. The hill is climbed. Still shadow-land -- Still darkling looms another hill. Oh, weary feet! -- climb that to find A new ascent, 'mid shadows still! We dare not stop or think of rest, This one hill may be all that lies Between us and our souls' desire -- The splendour of the eastern skies. Through long long lives we till and tend, Sow, weed, and water, all in vain; Without the flower we looked to find, Each year springs, blooms, and dies again. Bowed down with our unanswered prayers, Our face averted from our past, We watch each year grow green, and cry, 'Surely this brings our flower at last!' Failure on failure! What! tired out? Too tired to live? Ah, dare you die When this new year may bud and bear Your longed-for flower of Liberty? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION by EDWARD CARPENTER THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND by ANDREW LANG MICE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY by THOMAS MCGRATH A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR WARREN by THOMAS MCGRATH A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY by EDITH BLAND NESBIT |
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