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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONE FREEDOM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poet's Biography
First Line: How lonely is vast freedom! I may go
Last Line: "how lone is freedom!"" at her gate he cried."
Subject(s): Freedom; Solitude; Liberty; Loneliness
First Line: How lonely is vast freedom! I may go
Last Line: "how lone is freedom!"" at her gate he cried."
Subject(s): Freedom; Solitude; Liberty; Loneliness
HOW lonely is vast Freedom! I may go,
Or come, or sit in the still house of thought,
All idleness, unseeking and unsought,
From the gray morn to noon, to evening's glow;
None shall reprove, if vacant hands I show,
Or question why the task remains unwrought;
Or done, or never done, 'twill be as naught,
To every creature on the earth below.
How lonely is vast Freedom! I were fain
To follow any who would be my liege;
To say, "Do this," or, "To the world's end ride!"
I am as he who once sought all in vain
To enter his loved city, in her siege;
"How lone is Freedom!" at her gate he cried.
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