DIVEST thyself, O Soul, of vain desire! Bid hope farewell, dismiss all coward fears; Take leave of empty laughter, emptier tears, And quench, for ever quench, the wasting fire Wherein this heart, as in a funeral pyre, Aye burns, yet is consumed not. Years on years Moaning with memories in thy maddened ears -- Let at thy word, like refluent waves, retire. Enter thy soul's vast realm as Sovereign Lord, And, like that angel with the flaming sword, Wave off life's clinging hands. Then chains will fall From the poor slave of self's hard tyranny -- And Thou, a ripple rounded by the sea, In rapture lost be lapped within the All. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RECOMPENSE by JESSE M. BALL ALLEN RING FROM THE RIM OF THE GLASS, BOYS by JOHN CLINTON ANTHONY THEODORE ROOSEVELT by MORRIS ABEL BEER PSALM 19. COELI ENARRANT by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE HIS MOTHER'S FACE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |