Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAILURES, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poet's Biography First Line: They bear no laurels on their sunless brows Last Line: Wound his one signal, and went on his way. Subject(s): Religion; Theology | ||||||||
They bear no laurels on their sunless brows, Nor aught within their pale hands as they go; They look as men accustomed to the slow And level onward course 'neath drooping boughs. Who may these be no trumpet doth arouse, These of the dark processionals of woe, Unpraised, unblamed, but whom sad Acheron's flow Monotonously lulls to leaden drowse? These are the Failures. Clutched by Circumstance, They weresay not, too weak!too ready prey To their own fear whose fixèd Gorgon glance Made them as stone for aught of great essay; Or else they nodded when their Master-Chance Wound his one signal, and went on his way. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY A MOTIVE OUT OF LOHENGRIN by ARTHUR W. UPSON |
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