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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REBELLION, by HELEN WIEAND COLE First Line: These quiet ways I will not tolerate Last Line: Let me go down in action, not retreat. | |||
These quiet ways I will not tolerate, Lulling my senses to forgetfulness; Passion and feeling growing less and less, Till at the end, immobile, insensate, Meekly submitting to the turns of fate My spirit shrink from every strain and stress Into negation, into nothingness, Too late to love, too lethargic to hate. Still in my veins the stream of life runs red; Waters of Lethe give to other lips; Let me but weave a gold and purple thread Into life's pattern, before Atropis clips Short at the end, the tapestry complete, -- Let me go down in action, not retreat. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PEACE ON EARTH by HELEN WIEAND COLE TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE VOICE OF THE BANJO by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR PAST AND PRESENT by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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