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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO DUTY, by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON Poet's Biography First Line: Light of dim mornings, shield from heat and cold Last Line: Oh, can it be, thine other name is heaven? Subject(s): Duty | |||
LIGHT of dim mornings; shield from heat and cold; Balm for all ailments; substitute for praise; Comrade of those who plod in lonely ways (Ways that grow lonelier as the years wax old); Tonic for fears; check to the over-bold; Nurse, whose calm hand its strong restriction lays, Kind but resistless, on our wayward days; Mart, where high wisdom at vast price is sold; Gardener, whose touch bids the rose-petals fall, The thorns endure; surgeon, who human hearts Searchest with probes, though the death-touch be given; Spell that knits friends, but yearning lovers parts; Tyrant relentless o'er our blisses all; -- Oh, can it be, thine other name is Heaven? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEDICINE 2; FOR JOHN MURRAY by CAROLYN KIZER AND THEY OBEY by CARL SANDBURG STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING by ROBERT FROST BY THE RIVERS by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS by RICHARD LOVELACE FOR THE UNION DEAD by ROBERT LOWELL THE SNOWING OF THE PINES' by THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON |
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