Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS


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TEARS, by                    
First Line: Tears born of wild emotion
Last Line: And all is stainless gold!
Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness


TEARS born of wild emotion
Rise from the storm-tossed mind
As briny spray from Ocean
Swept by tempestuous wind:
But lo! as Day advances
Each spell-bound billow dances,
While Joy's fair sun out-glances
From angry clouds behind.

Tears, born of sullen anguish
Back waving sympathy,
Ye cling like mists that languish
To damp autumnal glee,
O'er earth and wave a-tether
For long sad days together!
Ah! when will clearing weather
Turn gloom to jubilee?

Tears shed in saintly sorrow,
Stemmed by absolving Grace,
Yet still undried, ye borrow
An emblem from Earth's face,
When she, Dark's empire scorning,
On some pure summer morning
Wears as a meet adorning
The dews her Sun shall chase!

Tears for heart-rapture vanished
Like dews of evening fall,
When sunlight spent has banished
Escape from dusky thrall:
O dreary weary waiting!
O gloom with no abating,
Gloom ever instigating
Sad Memory to recall!

Tears born of no repenting,
But empty sheer remorse,
Ye seem the unrelenting
Of a day's hopeless course,
When fall of leaves and stripping
Of blooms chime in with dripping
From leaden skies equipping
New vapours with new force!

Tears born of Joy's o'erflowing,
His tale too rudely told,
Seem drops that prime the glowing
Meridian skies unfold:
From Noon's laboratory
A cloudlet veils the glory,
'Tis but a moment's story
And all is stainless gold!





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