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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOMETIMES, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes for days Last Line: Comfort abideth with us, unaware. Subject(s): Prayer | |||
SOMETIMES for days Along the fields that I of time have leased, I go, nor find a single leaf increased; And hopeless, graze With forehead stooping downward like a beast. O heavy hours! My life seems all a failure, and I sigh, What is there left for me to do, but die? So small my powers That I can only stretch them to a cry! But while I stretch What strength I have, though only to a cry, I gain an utterance that men know me by; Create, and fetch A something out of chaos, -- that is I. Good comes to pass We know not when nor how, for, looking to What seemed a barren waste, there starts to view Some bunch of grass, Or snarl of violets, shining with the dew. I do believe The very impotence to pray, is prayer; The hope that all will end, is in despair, And while we grieve, Comfort abideth with us, unaware. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN LISTEN, LORD: A PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A PRAYER FOR THE FUTURE by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) DIFFERENT WAYS TO PRAY by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES by SHARON OLDS WE WHO PRAYED AND WEPT by WENDELL BERRY PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER by WENDELL BERRY A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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