Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ONGOING, by MARY SIEGRIST First Line: He will not come, the gallant flying boy Last Line: To unpathed fields where his great comrades wait. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Roosevelt, Quentin (1897-1919) | ||||||||
He will not come, the gallant flying boy, Back to his field. Somewhere he wings his way Where the Immortals keep; where Homer now Has back his sight, David his little lad; Where all those are we dully call the dead, Who have gone greatly on some shining quest, He takes his way. That which he quested for, That larger freedom of a larger birth, Captains him, flying into fields of dawn. He has gone on where now the soldier-slain Arise in light. Somewhere he takes his place And leads his comrades in untrodden fields. For never can these rest until our earth Has ceased from travailnever can these take Their fill of sleep until the Scourge is slain. And so they keep them sometimes near old ways In the accustomed fieldsnow flying low, Invisible, they cheer the gallant host, Bidding them be, as they, invincible. Still he leads on, the gallant flying boy: Among the "great good" dead he steers his course. Always the vision of his faring on To unpathed fields where his great comrades wait. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS by MARY SIEGRIST TO A CAPTIOUS CRITIC by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 10. THE TOYS by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE ON THE RHINE by MATTHEW ARNOLD LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST by WILLIAM ROSE BENET A SOUL'S TRAGEDY; A DRAMA by ROBERT BROWNING AULD ROB MORRIS by ROBERT BURNS |
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