Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DUTY, by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER Poet's Biography First Line: I slept and dreamed that life was beauty Last Line: A noonday light and truth to thee. Variant Title(s): Beauty And Duty Subject(s): Duty; Religion; Theology | ||||||||
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty: I woke and found that life was Duty: Was then thy dream a shadowy lie? Toil on, sad heart, courageously, And thou shalt find thy dream to be A noonday light and truth to thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY THE HEART'S CURE by ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER |
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