Defeat!... and how shall I lift this heel From the burning heart of these things I feel! -- No -- felt till now that they lie as dead Beneath the heft of this heel of lead. Defeat? the heft of this leaden heel? Watch out! the fire of these things I feel Is the current against resistance ahead Inflaming the mass that would hold it dead! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WAVES OF BREFFNY by EVA GORE-BOOTH THE EPITAPH IN FORM OF A BALLAD by FRANCOIS VILLON WHEN I READ THE BOOK by WALT WHITMAN IN REMEMBRANCE by ADRA CAROLINE BATCHELDER TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AND PERHAPS GELETT BURGESS by BERTON BRALEY |