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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INSANITY, by NORMAN CABOT Poet's Biography First Line: Passion and strength! Strength, passion! Last Line: Heaven help this silly world of gods and men! Subject(s): Hearts; Passion | |||
PASSION and Strength! Strength, Passion! Men who yearn Are not men who achieve. The poet's fierce fire Has too frail stuff to feed on; it must burn In brief, unheating blazes or expire. Passion and Strength! Could my uneasy heart Possess yon lumbering clod-of-earth, my gall, Breed insolence in his great bulk, what art, What social revolutions, might befall? Could that which takes hot life from me this hour Forsake the fuel it gnaws upon and then From this soft sap-wood generate new power, Heaven help this silly world of gods and men! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APPULDURCOMBE PARK by AMY LOWELL FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN by WILLIAM MEREDITH ON PASSION AS A LITERARY TRADITION by JOHN CIARDI |
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