Hearty and hale and free, After my life is gone, Mad with desire to be, My dream rushes on. Into some other heart, Dominating its beat, Making a man apart, Controlling his heat. What have I done for the dream? Have I changed its force? Have the winds of my self-esteem Altered its course? All that a man can do, Bound to the common way, Seeking the strange and the true For a year and a day? Given creative fire And power to pursue, I might have accomplished my soul's desire... What did I do! Rush on, rush on, my dream, Into another one; May he in some way redeem The wrong I have done. A greater beauty, A larger zeal, A common duty That all may feel; A unified art And a master theme: Create them, oh heart That inherits my dream! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEDIOCRITY IN LOVE REJECTED by THOMAS CAREW CHRISTMAS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR FROM THE IONIAN ISLANDS by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES THE OTHER WORLD by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE OUT OF THE SHADOW by MARGARET FAIRLESS BARBER LILIES: 27. THE WAVE-TOSSED VESSEL by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) SONNET: MAN VERSUS ASCETIC. 6 by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON TO THE OBELISK DURING THE GREAT FROST, 1881 by MATHILDE BLIND |