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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EAGLE SONNETS: 8, by CLEMENT WOOD Poet's Biography First Line: Faith is the dream that things known false are true Last Line: Yet we shall find no truer guide than he. Subject(s): Native Americans - Religion | |||
Faith is the dream that things known false are true: Truth is our feeble vision in the dark; Love, that supremest pleasure men pursue, Is life's device to shield an undimmed spark. Right is a thing of person and of season, Justice the sagging of a rusty scale; And we need only watch the cheater, Reason, To see how man's last anchorage must fail. Faith is a vision we must cling to still: Truth is a god to serve, although we die. Love is the dear controller of our will, Justice and right must ring in every cry. Though Reason let our craft drift out to sea, Yet we shall find no truer guide than he. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE NORTHWEST COAST: YA-IHL'S SONG TO THE NORTH WIND by ALICE HENSON ERNST THE VICTORY OF FAITH by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON THE ARCTIC INDIAN'S FAITH by THOMAS D'ARCY MCGEE HOPI SNAKE DANCE by J. MORRIS RICHARDS THE MOHEGAN CHURCH by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY MOUNT AGIOCHOOK by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER EAGLE SONNETS: 3 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 4 by CLEMENT WOOD EAGLE SONNETS: 5 by CLEMENT WOOD |
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