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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FLAME AGAINST THE WIND, by FLORENCE WILSON ROPER First Line: Within myself, this bit of dying dust Last Line: His soul the dream that flames within my heart. | |||
Within myself, this bit of dying dust, That time each day with sure precision mars Beneath the slow corrode, the creeping rust, A something lives that contemplates the stars. Beyond the glitter of the cradled throng, Within myself, a watcher of the sky Has wrung from distant harmonies of song, One broken chord to measure Heaven by. A flame against the wind, serene, aloof, It dares to burn across the darkest night, As constellations in the vaulted roof Of heaven blaze, immutable with light. A flame beyond the reach of dying clod, Within myself, omnipotent, is God! God in His Heaven -- whirling with His hand The universes to their destined place, God in the heart that dares to understand, God in the mind that never sees His face. God in the grass, the flower, the leaf, the tree, The full corn in the ear, the quickening seed, God in the wind, the earth, the sky, the sea, In every stick and stone and dusty weed. God in the song that ripples from the breast Of each gay-plumaged bird with thrilling note, God in the humble sparrow in her nest Though dumb the song within her muted throat. God in myself, the living vital part, His soul the dream that flames within my heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CONTRA MORTEM: THE WHEEL OF BEING I by HAYDEN CARRUTH GARRISON by AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS by THOMAS HARDY A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 52 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN A REMEMBERED FACE by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG THE CHURCH OF BROU by MATTHEW ARNOLD JAMESON'S RIDE by ALFRED AUSTIN ALL THIS by REBA MAXWELL AVERY |
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