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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REBELLION, by HELEN WIEAND COLE First Line: These quiet ways I will not tolerate Last Line: Let me go down in action, not retreat. | |||
These quiet ways I will not tolerate, Lulling my senses to forgetfulness; Passion and feeling growing less and less, Till at the end, immobile, insensate, Meekly submitting to the turns of fate My spirit shrink from every strain and stress Into negation, into nothingness, Too late to love, too lethargic to hate. Still in my veins the stream of life runs red; Waters of Lethe give to other lips; Let me but weave a gold and purple thread Into life's pattern, before Atropis clips Short at the end, the tapestry complete, -- Let me go down in action, not retreat. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PEACE ON EARTH by HELEN WIEAND COLE ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by WILLIAM BASSE A TIME TO TALK by ROBERT FROST ECHOES: 35. MARGARITAE SORORI by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY ON ENGLISH MONSIEUR by BEN JONSON THE HAYLOFT by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: PROEM by ALFRED TENNYSON |
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