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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MADAME CURIE, by SARAH VIRGINIA SHERWOOD
First Line: Which of us, finding the bright path to fame
Last Line: These must we covet, as we bid you hail.
Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934); Wellesley College
First Line: Which of us, finding the bright path to fame
Last Line: These must we covet, as we bid you hail.
Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934); Wellesley College
Addressed to Madame Curie at Commencement, 1921, when Wellesley College conferred upon her the
degree of Doctor of Science.
WHICH of us, finding the bright path to Fame,
Or holding Fortune's palm, or cherishing
A wilful Joy, a prism-tinted thing,
Would not have flung away or wealth or name,
Would not have loosed that lovely winged flame,
And chosen years of toil -- patience to cling
To some cold carnotite, if we might wring
Its radiant secret from a thing so tame.
To you who did so spend your years of Youth,
And such a royal gift have made mankind,
Frail flowers we bring, and praise that is but frail --
Praying the while for such straight love of truth,
Such will to seek, whether we lose or find.
These must we covet, as we bid you hail.
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