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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A CHILD OF THE AGE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for a voice that in a single song Last Line: "or in the darkness with the dead to die." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Death | |||
I OH for a voice that in a single song Could quiver with the hopes and moan the fears And speak the speechless secret of the years, And rise, and sink, and at the last be strong! O for a trumpet-call to stir the throng Of doubtful fighting men, whose eyes and ears Watch till a banner in the east appears And the skies ring that have been still so long! O age of mine, if one could tune for thee A marching music out of this thy woe! If one could climb upon a hill and see Thy gates of promise on the plain below And gaze a minute on the bliss to be And knowing it be satisfied to know! II I thought to stand alone upon a height Above the waters where my kinsmen lie; I seemed to hear a promise in the night, I dreamed I saw a dawning in the sky: I said, "For you, for you, with keener sight, I watch till on the waves the dawn be nigh": I said, "While these men slumber, what delight That we two should be waking, God and I!" Ah me! the deathful waters climb and creep, Far off the melancholy deep to deep Murmurs a tidal infinite reply: "Oh fool, oh foolish prodigal of sleep, Remains, remains but with the waves to weep, Or in the darkness with the dead to die." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY HOW THE MIRROR LOOKS THIS MORNING by HICOK. BOB NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS |
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