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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOOD AND EVIL, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once when the messenger that stays Last Line: Uncertain shadows here. Subject(s): Evil; Good | |||
ONCE when the messenger that stays For all, beside me stood, I mused on what great Shakespeare says Of evil and of good. And shall the evil I have done Live after me? I said; When lo! a splendor like the sun Shone round about my bed. And a sweet spirit of the skies Near me, yet all apart, In whispers like the low wind's sighs, Spake to my listening heart; Saying, your poet, reverenced thus, For once hath been unwise; The good we do lives after us, The evil 't is that dies! Evil is earthy, of the earth, -- A thing of pain and crime, That scarcely sends a shadow forth Beyond the bounds of time. But good, in substance, dwells above This discontented sphere, Extending only, through God's love, Uncertain shadows here. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN MEMORIAM: T.S.K by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER SUNBEAM AND SHADOW by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER FRAGMENT OF A HYMN by JOHN BYROM THE CONTRAST TO WATTS' HYMN 'THE POTTER AND THE CLAT' by JOHN BYROM UNIVERSAL GOOD, THE OBJECT OF THE DIVINE WILL; AND EVIL by JOHN BYROM CAESAR AND CHRIST by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK CHRISTIANITY AND WAR by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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