Lady of Light, and our best woman, and queen, Stand now for peace, (though anger breaks your heart), Though naught but smoke and flame and drowning is seen. Lady of Light, speak, though you speak alone, Though your voice may seem as a dove's in this howling flood, It is heard to-night by every senate and throne. Though the widening battle of millions and millions of men Threatens to-night to sweep the whole of the earth, Back of the smoke is the promise of kindness again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SELF-REJECTED by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER FATIGUE; EPIGRAM by HILAIRE BELLOC AFTER MUSIC by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY DANAIDES: THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND EARTH by AESCHYLUS EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 5. THE EXILE by ALBERTA BANCROFT |