TREMBLING old men are stamm'ring Scarce can their anguish tell Whisp'ring the ancient Hebrew, The "Hear, O Israel!" Some little Jew is falling, Clubbed in his narrow pale The Queen is singing sweetly Songs of the Nightingale. Watchmen are growing fretful, Why should they longer wait? Hurry the homeless wanderers Through the next dark suffering-gate. What though anchors are lifted, What though poor exiles flee Carmen Sylva is warbling An Ode to Humanity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CORPORATE ENTITY by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM THE DUNES OF INDIANA by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE PAST IS THE PRESENT (2) by MARIANNE MOORE THE POET (2) by ISAAC ROSENBERG |