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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAOCOON, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This spirit-choking atmosphere Last Line: This death-grip from my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John | |||
This spirit-choking atmosphere With deadly serpent-coil Entwines my soaring-upwardness And chains me to the soil, Where'er I seek with eager stride To gain yon gleaming height, These noisesome fetters coil aloft And snare my buoyant flight. O, why these aspirations bold, These rigours of desire, That surge within so ceaselessly Like living tongues of fire? And why these glowing forms of hope That scintillate and shine, If naught of all that burnished dream Can evermore be mine? It cannot be, fate does not mock, And man's untoward decree Shall not forever thus confine My life's entirety, My every fibre fierce rebels Against this servile role, And all my being broods to break This death-grip from my soul! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE SINNER by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE MEASURE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE RETURN (1) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WELT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON YOUR EYES by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, MY LITTLE ONE' by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A BIT OF SKY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A DIM DOORWAY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A PARADOX by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A SONG OF COURAGE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON AFTERGLOW by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ALIENS (TO YOU - EVERYWHERE! DEDICATED) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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