THE hope of Truth grows stronger, day by day; I hear the soul of Man around me waking, Like a great sea, its frozen fetters breaking, And flinging up to heaven its sunlit spray, Tossing huge continents in scornful play, And crushing them, with din of grinding thunder, That makes old emptinesses stare in wonder; The memory of a glory passed away Lingers in every heart, as, in the shell, Resounds the bygone freedom of the sea, And every hour new signs of promise tell, That the great soul shall once again be free, For high, and yet more high, the murmurs swell Of inward strife for truth and liberty. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PRESIDENT GARFIELD by GEORGE SANTAYANA ON VISITING THE TOMB OF BURNS by JOHN KEATS THE BURNING BABE by ROBERT SOUTHWELL THE DEATH OF ADONIS by THEOCRITUS THE SWORD by ABU BAKR OF MARRAKESH DRINKING SONG (1) by ALCAEUS OF MYTILENE SONNET TO A FRIEND, ON HIS SECOND MARRIAGE by BERNARD BARTON |