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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO THOSE WHO SEE BUT DARKLY, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their gaze uplifting from shoals of despair Last Line: Charging the ultimate, rending the veil. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Hope; Optimism | |||
Their gaze uplifting from shoals of despair Like phantoms groping enswathed from the light Up from miasmic depths, children of night, Surge to the piping of Hope's dulcet lay, Souled like the lily, whose splendors declare God's mazèd paradox—purged of all blight, Out from the quagmire, unsullied and fair. Life holds her arms o'er the festering way, Smiles, as their faith-sandalled rushes prevail, Slowly the sun rides the marge of the day, Wine to the lips sorely anguished and pale; On, ever on, do the serried ranks sway Charging the ultimate, rending the veil. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT by DEREK MAHON OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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