Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CLOUD UPON CLOUD (2), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cloud upon cloud Last Line: Virtue is a cockney grown | ||||||||
Cloud upon cloud. Clouds after rain Value standeth in success, But the same value Hideth in failure, In poverty, mourning, In solitude, crime; The value adhesive Sticks to them all Refuses to sunder From man, from man. Differ servitude & rank As chains that clank not, chains that clank The last shall be first The first be postponed The latest promoted At the end of the day It first will appear Who never surrendered Who combated stoutly, Where God was the while We strutted we coxcombs So condescendingly Bowing & giving Affecting to give Virtue is a cockney grown | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOSTON HYMN; READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON DIRGE (1) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON EACH AND [OR, IN] ALL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON EROS (1) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON FABLE: THE MOUNTAIN AND THE SQUIRREL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON |
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