Cut loose! Hoist sail! Leave the familiar shores Of life! Drive out on love's enormous wind Far from the safe small pieties and blind Tangles of conscience! O set wide the doors And throw the strong arms open utterly! Go forth reckless with faith and unresigned, Thus only seeking shall you surely find The peril and rapture of true liberty! Thus only shall divine discoveries Stretch the vague margins of the conscious soul And fire the peaks of more inclusive skies; Thus may we burst the self-created bond Of sordid fears and hear life's surges roll On shores of truth that always lie beyond! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: PAULINE BARRETT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS NEIGHBORS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC by KAREN SWENSON |