Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIHIL HUMANI ALIENUM, by TITUS MUNSON COAN First Line: In the loud waking world I come and go Last Line: From nothing human let me hold apart! Subject(s): Brotherhood | ||||||||
IN the loud waking world I come and go, And yet the twofold gates of dreams are mine; I have been the battle-lightnings round me shine, And won the stillness of Hawaiian snow; The votary's sad surrender do I know; Joy have I had of passion and of wine; Nor shines the light of poesy less divine Though science's white cressets round me glow. Yet never in me are these things at feud; They make one sum of rapture; in my heart Their memories rise and glow, a living good; Dreams, banquets, battles, prayers, carousals, art, All form for me a vital brotherhood; From nothing human let me hold apart! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RESTAURANT by DAVID IGNATOW BROTHERHOOD by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON INTERRACIAL by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPEECH TO THOSE WHO SAY COMRADE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH BROTHERHOOD (2) by EDWIN MARKHAM A DREAM OF FLOWERS by TITUS MUNSON COAN |
|