Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EXORDIUM, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poet's Biography First Line: Speak! Said my soul, be stern and adequate Last Line: Perchance god hears! | ||||||||
Speak! said my soul, be stern and adequate; The sunset falls from Heaven, the year is late, Love waits with fallen tresses at thy gate And mourns for perished days. Speak! in the rigor of thy fate and mine, Ere these scant, dying days, bright-lipped with wine, All one by one depart, resigned, divine, Through desert, autumn ways. Speak! thou art lonely in thy chilly mind, With all this desperate solitude of wind, The solitude of tears that make thee blind, Of wild and causeless tears. Speak! thou hast need of me, heart, hand and head, Speak, if it be an echo of thy dread, A dirge of hope, of young illusions dead -- Perchance God hears! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SONG FOR WAKING by GEORGE CABOT LODGE A SONG OF THE WAVE by GEORGE CABOT LODGE AD SERVAM by GEORGE CABOT LODGE DAY AND DARK by GEORGE CABOT LODGE DEATH IN YOUTH by GEORGE CABOT LODGE FOR E. L. by GEORGE CABOT LODGE LES BOURGEOIS by GEORGE CABOT LODGE ODE TO THE EARTH by GEORGE CABOT LODGE |
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