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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HELEN KELLER, by COVINGTON HALL First Line: You who never saw the sun-flamed hills Last Line: Be evermore your slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Youth; Nightmares | |||
You who never saw the sun-flamed hills, The morning's opaled skies, The valley in the moonlight bathed, The evening's purple dyes; Who never heard the mocker flood The southern night with song, The music of the vesper bells Drift mist-wreathed streams along; And yet who came in darkness on The beauty few have found, In silence to the knowledge that The spheres are music-bound -- You who saw the great injustice done, As only soul-eyes can, And cried against the Strong and Great, And for the Underman: To you who shamed our cowardice, Who nerved us to be brave, The Angel of our childhood's dreams Be evermore your Slave. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS BEAUTY ROHTRAUT by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES) by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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