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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HELEN KELLER, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the dark leaved life, bloomed hope, riped love Last Line: Thus one brave heart ten thousand souls can stay. Subject(s): Faith; Hope; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Love; Belief; Creed; Optimism; Words; Vocabulary | |||
Out from the dark leaved life, bloomed hope, riped love. Feeling, unchained, sprang fair from feeling's dearth. Forth o'er the waters of blind pain the dove Of Sentience winged, thrilled all applauding earth. Love hovered above you, kissed your lips to speech, Taught your dumb hands its language. A lode star, Thought pointed dream to action; with proud reach Its station was Imagination's car. You, in return, have borne that borrowed light Across deep human grief and cheered its day. You nurse the dream that dawns behind the sight. Because of you, Hope wears bright wreath of May. Thus radiant Faith undaunted treads the night -- Thus one brave heart ten thousand souls can stay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER DON QUIXOTE by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS |
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