Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLOW -- SLOW -- SLOW -- SLOW, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography First Line: Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow Last Line: Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow. Subject(s): Haste; Reform And Reformers | ||||||||
Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow -- Good things come and bad things go. Try to sweep the clouds away, Try to speed the flowers of May, Hurry on the ocean's tide, Bid the mountains run and hide, This achieve, but no one can Haste the processes of man, Gather in and take control Of the mighty human soul, Bend its action to his will, Bid it hasten or lie still, Cleanse it from the smudge of wrong, Make it beautiful and strong, Cause the blessedness to come Of the fair millennium. He to whom a thousand years Circling vastly through the spheres Pass as flies a summer's day, He alone has valid sway, He alone is artisan Of the processes of man; Patient, patient, endless calm, Under His almighty arm Good things come and bad things go, Slow -- slow -- slow -- slow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO W.E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS by SCUDDER MIDDLETON JANE ADDAMS by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL THE REFORMER by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL TO THE REFORMERS OF ENGLAND by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER JANE ADDAMS by GWENDOLYN BROOKS BOOKER T. AND W.E.B. by DUDLEY RANDALL FIVE BLACK MEN by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER W.E.B. DUBOIS AT HARVARD by JAY WRIGHT A BATTLE SONG (WRITTEN IN THE WORLD WAR) by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS |
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