Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO-MORROW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: To-morrow! O the glorious to-morrow!' Last Line: And we be satisfied! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Future; Waiting | ||||||||
'To-morrow! O the glorious To-morrow!' The soul forever cries; 'Balm it will bring for every hurt and sorrow In the fair land that lies Just yonder, hidden from our earthly vision, But waiting, waiting there With fullest compensations, joys elysian, Nor blight of dole or care. To-day on shore and sea the tempest rages, The wild winds never cease; To-morrow! Ah! the thought of it assuages The storm till all is peace.' No idle dream, but prophecy eternal, This rapture of the soul This grand outreaching for the life supernal Though whelming billows roll. It doth not yet appear what worlds benigner Within God's æons bide, But oh, forever, days will dawn diviner, And we be satisfied! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALMOST AN ELEGY by JOSEPH BRODSKY THE AWAKENING by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON WAITING FOR SWEET BETTY by CLARENCE MAJOR GENTLEMEN, I ADDRESS YOU PUBLICLY by KENNETH REXROTH LA VIE EN ROSE by KENNETH REXROTH COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR |
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