Thou master of thought and depicter of men Whose soul has been burned in the works of thy pen, Thy name is a lever which moves us again To honor thy memory. Humanity's friend and the Commoner's guide, Apostle of hope and simplicity's pride, Thy name shall endure till the oceans subside And earth shows sterility. No marble cut deep or no labored stone pile Can fittingly tell of thy freedom from guile, No ode poets write can thy death reconcile To us of obscurity. Thou hast smitten the rock, and waters of Truth Have gushed like the fount of perpetual youth, The Apple of Life felt the print of thy tooth, Thou savant of history. All precedent's form thou hast blasted like rock, The pessimist's caves of despair felt the shock, Thy teachings of hope and thy sanguineness mock The false in philosophy. Great souls shall endure until eons of years Are gone like the mist and the earth disappears, And Infinite Grace to which thy soul adheres Gives thee immortality. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARCHIMEDES LAST FORAY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET MOTHER (MARGERY CARRUTH, 1896-1981) by HAYDEN CARRUTH THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG by DAVID IGNATOW HER EYES TWIN POOLS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON SENRYU: BLIND DATE by TIMOTHY LIU EPITAPH IN A CHURCH-YARD IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA by AMY LOWELL |