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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES TO GRIEF, by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER First Line: Come grief, and sing a solemn dirge Last Line: Then welcome day again. | |||
COME Grief, and sing a solemn dirge Beneath this midnight shade; From central darkness now emerge, And tread the lonely glade. This is the cheerless hour of night, For sorrow only made; When no intrusive rays of light, The silent gloom pervade. Though such the darkness of my soul, Not such the calmness there; But waves of guilt tumultuous roll 'Midst billows of despair. Fallacious Pleasure's tinsel train My soul rejects with scorn; If higher joys she can't attain, She'd rather choose to mourn. For bliss superior she was made; Or for extreme despair; If pain awaits her past the dead, Why should she triumph here? Tho' Reason points at good supreme, Yet Grace must lead us thence Must wake us from this pleasing dream The idle joys of Sense. Surely I wish the blackest night Of Nature to remain, Till Christ arise with healing light, Then welcome day again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYMN WRITTEN IN DESPONDENCY by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER RETURN TO TOMHANICK by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER TO MR. BLEECKER, ON HIS PASSAGE TO NEW YORK by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER DOWN BY THE CARIB SEA: 6. SUNSET IN THE TROPICS by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CARELESS CONTENT by JOHN BYROM ON THIS DAY I COMPLETE MY THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE UNSUNG HEROES by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE CONVERGENCE OF THE TWAIN; LINES ON LOSS OF THE TITANIC by THOMAS HARDY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY by JOHN MILTON THE SECOND COMING by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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