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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IF HOMELY VIRTUES DRAW FROM ME A TUNE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or speed like arrows, swift and sure, to the mark. | |||
If homely virtues draw from me a tune In happy jingle or a half-sad croon; Or if the smoldering future should inspire My hand to strike the seer's prophetic lyre; Or if injustice, brutishness and wrong Should make a blasting trumpet of my song; O God, give beauty and strength -truth to my words, Oh, may they fall like sweetly cadenced chords, Or burn like beacon fires from out the dark, Or speed like arrows, swift and sure, to the mark. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FATHER, FATHER ABRAHAM by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON GIRL OF FIFTEEN by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON I HEAR THE STARS STILL SINGING by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON POSSUM SONG (A WARNING) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A BANJO SONG by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A MID-DAY DREAMER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A PLANTATION BACCHANAL by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS WAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON ANSWER TO PRAYER by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON |
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