Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TORCH, by ARTHUR B. DALE First Line: To you the torch we fling Last Line: Whose light we've let go out? | ||||||||
"To you the torch we fling"; The challenge yet is heard, Bequest of fullest sacrifice, A life-demanding word. Yet this thought with it comes, A question tinged with doubt: Shall we the torch to others pass Whose light we've let go out? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER by THOMAS HARDY SONG [WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732] by GEORGE LYTTELTON THE PLACE OF THE DAMNED by JONATHAN SWIFT AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER by PHILIP AYRES SONNET OF LIFE by ERNEST BENSHIMOL |
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