Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INEVITABLE, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography First Line: What has been will be Last Line: Fore'er, without a flaw. Subject(s): Fate; Destiny | ||||||||
What has been will be, 'Tis the under law of life; 'Tis the song of sky and sea, To the key of calm and strife. For guard we as we may, What is to be will be, The dark must fold each day -- The shore must gird each sea. All things are ruled by law; 'Tis only in man's will You meet a feeble flaw; But fate is weaving still The web and woof of life, With hands that have no hearts, Thro' calmness and thro' strife, Despite all human arts. For fate is master here, He laughs at human wiles; He sceptres every tear, And fetters any smiles. What is to be will be, We cannot help ourselves; The waves ask not the sea Where lies the shore that shelves. The law is coldest steel, We live beneath its sway, It cares not what we feel, And so pass night and day. And sometimes we may think This cannot -- will not -- be: Some waves must rise -- some sink, Out on the midnight sea. And we are weak as waves That sink upon the shore; We go down into graves -- Fate chants the nevermore; Cometh a voice! Kneel down! 'Tis God's -- there is no fate -- He giveth the Cross and Crown, He opens the jeweled gate. He watcheth with such eyes As only mothers own -- "Sweet Father in the skies! Ye call us to a throne." There is no fate -- God's love Is law beneath each law, And law all laws above Fore'er, without a flaw. | 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 SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN |
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