HOPE is renewed in foolish hearts like mine... The leaves of black ailanthus trees, close-pent In some dim alley of a tenement Renew themselves, because the sun will shine One hour upon them out of all the day. I, for the sake of you, will take more care What song I sing, perhaps, what gown I wear— (You long departed, and so far away!) Hope—What is hope? The search that cannot end— The crack in prison-walls that will not yield— The garnered green of some remembered field— In famine days the one last coin to spend— The wind that makes a deep disquietude... Why in my sullen heart is hope renewed? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A PLANTATION BACCHANAL by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: EUGENE CARMAN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE NEGRO'S TRAGEDY by CLAUDE MCKAY A MILLION YOUNG WORKMEN, 1915 by CARL SANDBURG HOUSES OF DREAMS by SARA TEASDALE |