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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
First Line: The poet squanders time in idle dreams
Last Line: The dreamer's song, perchance, outlasts them all.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Optimism; Work; Workers
First Line: The poet squanders time in idle dreams
Last Line: The dreamer's song, perchance, outlasts them all.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Optimism; Work; Workers
The poet squanders time in idle dreams,
While men rear towers, or build a Chinese wall.
The world is troubled, mad with hectic schemes—
The dreamer's song, perchance, outlasts them all.
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