@3Soprano:@1 UPON the rack of love despised I lay And one at midnight came to hush my groan With—"Patience, brother, for at break of day Thou shalt forget"—that word wrenched bone from bone. @3Contralto:@1 I live,—O God, my heart is beating still!— Yea, this that walks and eats and sleeps, is I! What of the light that fled these ashes chill— My soul of dreams—? I live to see it die. @3Basso:@1 To-night I weary of my book of doubt, Its rhymes and sciences of sneer and slime; I throw my casement wide where clear shine out God's seals still molten on the scrolls of Time. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL by HAYDEN CARRUTH LETTER TO MAXINE SULLIVAN by HAYDEN CARRUTH SPOKEN AT A CASTLE GATE by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON O DREAMS, O DESTINATIONS by CECIL DAY LEWIS DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 2. LOS CIGARILLOS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON DOMESDAY BOOK: AT FAIRBANKS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DIPPOLD THE OPTICIAN by EDGAR LEE MASTERS |