Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A CHILD READING, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, read the pages of the old-world story Last Line: That ever yet were done. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Socialism | ||||||||
YES, read the pages of the old-world story, Of kings of noble deed and noble thought Of heroes whose resplendent crown of glory Bound their wide brows, unsought. But be not sad because their work is ended, And they have rest which life so long denied: They still live in the world which they befriended, For which they lived and died. Great deeds can never die : all through the ages Their fruits increasing ever grow and spread, And many a deed unnamed in written pages Lived once -- and is not dead. And, God be praised, man's work is not completed, There still is work on earth for men to do; Not yet, not yet are all the false defeated, Nor yet crowned all the true. Still the world needs brave deeds and true hearts many, Not yet are all the noble battles won! We too, we too may do deeds great as any That ever yet were done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. CONCLUSION by EDWARD CARPENTER THE SOCIALIST AND THE SUFFRAGIST by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM; A VISION IN THE STRAND by ANDREW LANG MICE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY A LITTLE SONG ABOUT CHARITY by THOMAS MCGRATH A WARRANT FOR PABLO NERUDA by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR THE OLD REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN by THOMAS MCGRATH BLUES FOR WARREN by THOMAS MCGRATH A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY by EDITH BLAND NESBIT |
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