Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR COLONEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Deep loving, well knowing Last Line: "but always said, ""come, boys!" Subject(s): New York City - Revolutionary Period; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919) | ||||||||
Deep loving, well knowing His world and its blindness, A heart overflowing With measureless kindness, Undaunted in labor (And Death was a trifle), Steel-true as a saber, Direct as a rifle, All Man in his doing, All Boy in his laughter, He fronted, unruing, The Now and Hereafter, A storm-battling cedar, A comrade, a brother -- Oh, such was our leader, Beloved as no other! When weaker souls faltered His courage remade us, Whose tongue never paltered, Who never betrayed us. His hand on your shoulder All honors exceeding, What breast but was bolder Because he was leading! And still in our trouble, In peace or in war-time, His word shall redouble Our strength as aforetime. When wrongs cry for righting No odds shall appal us; To clean, honest fighting Again he will call us, And, cowboys or doughboys, We'll follow his drum, boys, Who never said, "Go, boys!" But always said, "Come, boys!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT SAGAMORE HILL by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE REVEALER by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THEODORE ROOSEVELT by MORRIS ABEL BEER THEODORE ROOSEVELT by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE WHO GOES THERE? by GRACE DUFFIE BOYLAN THE PROPHET by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK THEODORE ROOSEVELT by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. |
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