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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HELIOS, by JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I am weary of a heart that brings Last Line: "I shall cry out to heaven, ""the sun! The sun!" | |||
OH, I am weary of a heart that brings Star-worship even to the shining sun: Rather a savage whose whole heart hath won Radiance and joy from sunlight than whose wings Flutter and fade before the twilight rings: Why should we falter when the night is done, -- Dream-weavers, trembling in dim mists that stun All things divorced from thought, and thought from things? I am thy child, O Sun, as Julian was: I crouch not in the shadows of my soul, And grapple with dark terrors; nor, rewon, Drink I of darkness when the shadows pass: Even at death, when nearest is the goal, I shall cry out to heaven, "The sun! the sun!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HIRED MAN by EVA K. ANGLESBURG MAY CELEBRANTS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET TO ENGLISH CONNOISSEURS by WILLIAM BLAKE THE WILD DOVES by GEORGES BOUTELLEAU ON A TWIN AT TWO YEARS OLD DEAD OF A CONSUMPTION by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) THE MEASURE, HYMN 4 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR by NANCY BUCKLEY |
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