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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PATIENCE AND HOPE, by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a barren steep Last Line: Of patience nursing hope -- the angel and the child! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulwer, Edward; Lytton Of Knebworth, 1st Baron; Lytton, Edward George Earle Bulwer, Lord Subject(s): Hope; Patience; Optimism | |||
UPON a barren steep, Above a stormy deep, I saw an angel watching the wild sea; Earth was that barren steep, Time was that stormy deep, And the opposing shore, eternity! "Why dost thou watch the wave? Thy feet the waters lave; The tide ingulfs thee if thou dost delay." "Unscath'd I watch the wave, Time not the angels' grave, I wait until the ocean ebbs away!" Hush'd on the angel's breast, I saw an infant rest, Smiling upon the gloomy hell below. "What is the infant prest, O angel, to thy breast?" "The child God gave me in the long-ago? "Mine all upon the earth -- The angel's angel-birth, Smiling all terror from the howling wild!" -- Never may I forget The dream that haunts me yet, Of Patience nursing Hope -- the angel and the child! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT by DEREK MAHON SONG, FR. ERNEST MALTRAVERS by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON A SPENDTHRIFT by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON ABSENT YET PRESENT by EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON |
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