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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO W.E.B. DUBOIS - SCHOLAR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandly isolate as the god of day Last Line: Light of our impotence! Joy of our tongue! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Du Bois, William Edward B. (1868-1963); Reform & Reformers; Writing & Writers | |||
Grandly isolate as the god of day— Blazing an orbit through the dank and gloom Of misty morning, far and fair you loom, Flooding the dimness with your golden ray,— Cheering the mantled on the thorn-set way, Teaching of Faith and Hope o'er the tomb, Where both, though buried, spring to newer bloom— Strengthened and sweet from the mound of decay. Soft! strains of Sanctus we lift on the air, Ere Nunc Dimittus at last shall be sung, Sing we our Sanctus to fitly declare Blessings that well up from hearts sorely wrung. Lead, lead us on o'er the furthermost stair— Light of our impotence! Joy of our tongue! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CELL, SELECTION by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 126: THE DOUBTING MAN by LYN HEJINIAN WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP by JANE HIRSHFIELD COMPULSIVE QUALIFICATIONS by RICHARD HOWARD DEUTSCH DURCH FREUD by RANDALL JARRELL LET THEM ALONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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