Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FULFILMENT, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poet's Biography First Line: What do you ask, o soul? Last Line: "shall ever be the token for the onset." Subject(s): Life; Self-satisfaction; Soul | ||||||||
What do you ask, O soul? What is the joy, or worth, or goal Which you with unremitting urge desire? "I ask for Life's fulfilling, For complete fruition of innate promise. I ask to reach my vision's outmost marge, That all I see potential may become actual. I ask that lethargy may never lay Its numbing hand on any vibrant force; And that the challenge of my best desire Shall ever be the token for the onset." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CRUEL FALCON by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE WHOLE SOUL by PHILIP LEVINE I KNOW MY SOUL by CLAUDE MCKAY HONORING THE SAND; IN MEMORY OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL by ROBERT BLY THE CHINESE PEAKS; FOR DONALD HALL by ROBERT BLY THE LIFE OF TOWNS: TOWN OF THE EXHUMATION by ANNE CARSON A DAKOTA IDYL by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS |
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