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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES TO GRIEF, by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER First Line: Come grief, and sing a solemn dirge Last Line: Then welcome day again. | |||
COME Grief, and sing a solemn dirge Beneath this midnight shade; From central darkness now emerge, And tread the lonely glade. This is the cheerless hour of night, For sorrow only made; When no intrusive rays of light, The silent gloom pervade. Though such the darkness of my soul, Not such the calmness there; But waves of guilt tumultuous roll 'Midst billows of despair. Fallacious Pleasure's tinsel train My soul rejects with scorn; If higher joys she can't attain, She'd rather choose to mourn. For bliss superior she was made; Or for extreme despair; If pain awaits her past the dead, Why should she triumph here? Tho' Reason points at good supreme, Yet Grace must lead us thence Must wake us from this pleasing dream The idle joys of Sense. Surely I wish the blackest night Of Nature to remain, Till Christ arise with healing light, Then welcome day again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYMN WRITTEN IN DESPONDENCY by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER RETURN TO TOMHANICK by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER TO MR. BLEECKER, ON HIS PASSAGE TO NEW YORK by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER BEAUTY THAT IS NEVER OLD by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON EIGHTEEN-DOLLAR TAXI TRIP TO TIZAPAN AND BACK TO CHAPALA by CLARENCE MAJOR COOPER SQUARE by KAREN SWENSON INTOXICATION by EMILY DICKINSON THE SONG OF A HEATHEN by RICHARD WATSON GILDER THE DEATH OF LYON by HENRY PETERSON |
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