Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WAITING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the dawn comes forth I wonder Last Line: We will gaze on it with weeping. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
WHEN the dawn comes forth I wonder Will our sad, sad hearts awaken, And the grief we laboured under From the new-in-joy be shaken? If the night be long in going, All our souls will fix in sadness; And the light of morning glowing Waken in our eyes no gladness. All unschooled in mirth we will not Rouse forgotten joys from sleeping; And the dawn our pain shall still not: We will gaze on it with weeping. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A SUMMER NIGHT by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL |
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