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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GAUGE OF THE GREAT (TO MADAME CURIE), by D. SANIAL GILL First Line: It hardly matters who has done this thing Last Line: Yet shrank from the encirclement of applause. Subject(s): Curie, Marie (1867-1934) | |||
"It hardly matters who has done this thing, But greatly it matters that it has been done -- That this light toward the common weal is won Through a deeply-loving soul's adventuring. It counts but little that the brave bells ring In honor of this daughter or that son; But it signifies that the healing art has spun Lightward, -- that widely restored lives may sing! So why praise whom it has been given to find Herself? She is paid in full. There would be cause -- Had she not met life's challenge so -- for blame!" Thus protested to the tumult that is fame The Radiant Heart that solved for all mankind, Yet shrank from the encirclement of applause. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MADAME CURIE by SARAH VIRGINIA SHERWOOD BAYARD-UP-TO-DATE by D. SANIAL GILL COMES NOW THE DUSK by D. SANIAL GILL STEAL NOT THE DREAM! by D. SANIAL GILL SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOHN CABANIS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS TRANSFORMATION by CARL SANDBURG STREET LANTERNS by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE MESSIAH; A SACRED ECLOGUE IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S POLLIO by ALEXANDER POPE HE MOURNS FOR THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND BELOVED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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