EARTH vaunts no joy that lasts, No charm all fair; Light that no shadow casts What eye could bear? Sweet grace and sad decay, Cloud pierced by golden ray, Light and Shades' tender play Blend in each day. Gladness is sunshine soft, Whose genial beam Bids a wild desert oft With blossoms teem: Yet colour, form, perfume Flourish thro' mists that loom; Beauty's coronals bloom Mid transient gloom. Goodness is Light Divine, Evil its shade; @3This@1 destined more to shine, @3That@1 more to fade: Fleeting the chequered scene, Final a Clime serene, Light tempered by no screen For eyes full keen. Hence! what retards that rule; Hither! what speeds. Mortals! shun no dark school That glory breeds. Eyes with sad dewdrops wet, Minds scorning to forget, Hearts pining with regret, Bliss waits you yet! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTERGLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE POET SPEAKS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WORDS INTO WORDS WON'T GO by CLARENCE MAJOR TO A MAN WORKING HIS WAY THROUGH THE CROWD by MARIANNE MOORE A HYMN OF HATE by DOROTHY PARKER HAD I THE CHOICE (AFTER WALT WHITMAN) by GEORGE SANTAYANA ESSAY: AT NIGHT THE AUTOPORTRAIT AT NIGHT by ELENI SIKELIANOS |