Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INVOCATION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye whose lost voices, echoing in this rhyme Last Line: Nor hold the pilgrim of your night in scorn. Subject(s): Prayer | ||||||||
Ye whose lost voices, echoing in this rhyme, My tongue usurps, forgive if I have erred. Not as ye uttered, but as I have heard, I spell your meanings in an evil time. Mock not the hope your conference sublime Hath in the vigils of an exile stirred, But let the music of my woven word Waft to your shades the sweetness of your prime. For ye have passed beyond the gate of day Into the twilight of a paler morn, And hidden beauty from the world, and shorn The mortal eye of its supernal ray. Take, till I come, the homage of my lay, Nor hold the pilgrim of your night in scorn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN LISTEN, LORD: A PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A PRAYER FOR THE FUTURE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) DIFFERENT WAYS TO PRAY by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES by SHARON OLDS WE WHO PRAYED AND WEPT by WENDELL BERRY PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER by WENDELL BERRY |
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