Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TODAY, by HELEN GRAY CONE


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First Line: Voice, with what emulous fire thou singest free hearts of old fashion
Last Line: Shadow me forth a soul steadily facing to-day!
Alternate Author Name(s): Green, Coroebus


Voice, with what emulous fire thou singest free hearts of old fashion,
English scorners of Spain, sweeping the blue sea-way,
Sing me the daring of life for life, the magnanimous passion
Of man for man in the mean populous streets of To-day!

Hand, with what color and power thou couldst show, in the ring hot-sanded,
Brown Bestiarius holding the lean tawn tiger at bay,
Paint me the wrestle of Toil with the wild-beast Want, bare-handed;
Shadow me forth a soul steadily facing To-day!








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