Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FATE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how I know Last Line: Oh, be nigh! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Dead, The; Destiny | ||||||||
I KNOW not how I know And yet I know. I do not plan to go, And yet I go. There is some dim force propelling, Gently guiding and compelling, And a faint voice ever telling "This is so." The path is rough and black Dark as night And there lies a fairer track In the light. Yet I may not shirk or shrink, For I feel the hands that link As they guide me on the brink Of the Height. Bigots blame me in their wrath. Let them blame! Praise or blame, the fated path Is the same. If I droop upon my mission, There is still that saving vision, Iridescent and Elysian, Tipped in flame. It was granted me to stand By my dead. I have felt the vanished hand On my head On my brow the vanished lips, And I know that Death's eclipse Is a floating veil that slips, Or is shed. When I heard thy well-known voice, Son of mine, Should I silently rejoice, Or incline To strike harder as a fighter, That the heavy might be lighter, And the gloomy might be brighter At the sign? Great Guide, I ask you still, "Wherefore I?" But if it be thy will That I try, Trace my pathway among men, Show me how to strike, and when, Take me to the fightand then, Oh, be nigh! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION by ROBERT BLY FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WE COME BACK by KENNETH REXROTH THE WAKING (2) by THEODORE ROETHKE THE SONG OF THE BOW, FR. THE WHITE COMPANY by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE |
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