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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PARALLEL, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poet's Biography First Line: O'er many a wish frustrated, purpose foiled Last Line: Man's frequent frailty may deject him not. | |||
O'ER many a wish frustrated, purpose foiled, Still dost thou weep, discouraged Soul of Man? Be comforted, since even Nature can Too rarely triumph fully where she toiled; Behold the tree, the flower, the cloud despoiled Of beauty, which was virtue in her plan; A thousand times her purposes outran Their issues, maimed and crippled, bent and soiled. If many evenings close in faintest gray Before one glorious sunset crowns the day, If, for one oak, a myriad acorns rot, If Nature fails a thousand times ere one Clear master-stroke of beauty fronts the sun, Man's frequent frailty may deject him not. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IMPRESSION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE LYING IN THE GRASS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE ON A LUTE FOUND IN A SARCOPHAGUS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE REVELATION by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE SUPPLIANT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE THE VANISHING BOAT by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE WITH A COPY OF HERRICK by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE 1870-71 by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A BALLAD OF THE UPPER THAMES by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE A DREAM OF NOVEMBER; TO ARTHUR SYMONS by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE |
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