Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 5, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poet's Biography First Line: I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer Last Line: Supreme when in all bosoms he be heard. Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War | ||||||||
I pray for peace; yet peace is but a prayer. How many wars have been in my brief years! All races and all faiths, both hemispheres, My eyes have seen embattled everywhere The wide earth through; yet do I not despair Of peace, that slowly through far ages nears, Though not to me the golden morn appears; My faith is perfect in time's issue fair. For man doth build on an eternal scale, And his ideals are framed of hope deferred; The millennium came not; yet Christ did not fail, Though ever unaccomplished is His word; Him Prince of Peace, though unenthroned, we hail, Supreme when in all bosoms He be heard. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...D'ANNUNZIO by ERNEST HEMINGWAY 1915: THE TRENCHES by CONRAD AIKEN TO OUR PRESIDENT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE HORSES by KATHARINE LEE BATES CHILDREN OF THE WAR by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE U-BOAT CREWS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE RED CROSS NURSE by KATHARINE LEE BATES WAR PROFITS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN AT GIBRALTAR by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY |
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