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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET SEQUENCE: FOR GESSNER, by JOSEPH FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether, like shelley, he is glorious youth
Last Line: Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Whether, like shelley, he is glorious youth
Last Line: Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
Whether, like Shelley, he is glorious youth;
Or, like Euripides, singing in old age
Great dreams, the poet guards the flame of truth;
He feeds it with his love, his faith, his rage,
That his own epoch and the years to come
Might rise beyond dwarfed lusts, and that all men,
Roused by his music, by the lofty drum
Of his far prophecies, might revive again
Our deepest hope, and our unconquered vision:
And though men do not often understand,
Drowning the first notes in confused derision,
The poet lifts his liberating hand
And in the light of dawn or darkest night
Speaks truth until his hair grows winter-white.
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