Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG OF PEACE, by MARION HOOKER POE First Line: Thou art beautiful, o peace! Last Line: Let us love,love on. Subject(s): Peace | ||||||||
Thou art beautiful, O Peace! Thou com'st like summer beams, Like the glad golden horn Of plenty in her dreams. Lift up thy holy voice, It may not be in vain; The earth's bright page, the golden age May glad the world again: Let us love,love on. Thou are beautiful, O Peace! Earth spreads a teeming store, With brighter hopes of heaven; Vain man, what would ye more? Away with wasting war, Away with ruffian might; A brother's hand, without a brand, Can guard a brother's right! Let us love,love on. Thou art beautiful, O Peace! Each living scene we see All pant for love's embrace, All sigh for harmony. The glorious, glorious sun, Each heaven-lighted star And every flower in fragrant bower Cries out, "No war! No war!" Let us love,love on. Thou art beautiful, O Peace! Thy bright ideas bring Girls with rosy garlands, Birds with golden wing, Bees with honey treasures, Lambkins crowned with flowers, The breath of May, the roundelay Of joy in autumn bowers. Let us love,love on. Thou art beautiful, O Peace! The hour is coming fast When the earth no more shall start At the war-trumpet's blast; When every man shall sit Beneath his own fig tree, Content in mind that all mankind Are brothers,let it be! Let us love,love on. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MANY NIGHTS by GALWAY KINNELL THE MOTTO by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE TRUE BEATITUDE by RUPERT BROOKE MAKING PEACE by DENISE LEVERTOV TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1 by YEHUDA AMICHAI TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2 by YEHUDA AMICHAI |
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