If you would sing of heroes, sing of her For she was young and dauntless, unafraid In sodom's chaos; nothing could deter That backward look where beating brimstone played; Those loyal eyes cost her brief flesh and blood. Tell us no tale of shame or wickedness Only how faith and courage at the flood Became a white and shining loveliness. Became a white and shining loveliness. So let the gleaming pillar on the plain Rebuke safe cowards running from the past: They make no salt beneath a fiery rain, No savor of their little deeds will last. But when Lot's wife put on her crystal shroud The sky saluted and Prometheus bowed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OPPOSITES by KATHERINE MANSFIELD CAMPUS SONNET: TALK by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET CONTRA MORTEM: THE WOMAN'S GENITALS by HAYDEN CARRUTH SONG: SO OFTEN, SO LONG I HAVE THOUGHT by HAYDEN CARRUTH ALIENS (TO YOU - EVERYWHERE! DEDICATED) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MY BOY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |