Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen, Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart), Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen. Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone, Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood, It is heard to-night by every senate and throne. Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men Threatens to-night to sweep the whole of the earth, Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PILLAR OF THE CLOUD by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN GOD'S DETERMINATIONS: THE JOY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP RIGHTLY ATTENDED by EDWARD TAYLOR THE TEARS OF THE POPLARS by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 83. YA MALIK by EDWIN ARNOLD ISAIAH: FIFTY-SECOND CHAPTER by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE VILLAGE LIGHTS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: THE FOUNT OF TRUTH by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |