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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROTESTS (AFTER A PAINTING BY HUGO BALLIN), by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something impelled her from the / hearth Last Line: And all the sudden singing skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Social Protest | |||
SOMETHING impelled her from the hearth; Whispers and winds drew her along; But still, unconscious of the earth, She read her book of golden Song. Old legends stirred her as she read Of life victoriously unfurled, Of glories gone but never dead, And Beauty that redeemed the world. "Oh Songs," she sighed, "your world was fair; My own holds no such lovely things; No glow, no magic anywhere—" And then, a start—a flash of wings... And, with the rush of surging seas, Over her swept the world's replies: The lyric hills, the buoyant breeze And all the sudden singing skies! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG FOR MANY MOVEMENTS by AUDRE LORDE NAT BACON'S BONES by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS VICARIOUS ATONEMENT by RICHARD ALDINGTON TOWARD THE JURASSIC AGE by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA IN GEORGETOWN; HOLIDAY INN, WASHINGTON, D.C. by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH A BIRTHDAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER |
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