William Gay Rise Poems

  • 1.
    I love not when the oily seas
    Heave huge and slow beneath the sun,
    When decks are hot, and dead the breeze,
    And wits are dropping one by one.
    ...
  • 2.
    RELUCTANT Morn, whose meagre radiance lies
    With doubtful glimmer on the farthest hills,
    How long shall men, reiterant of their ills,
    With peevish invocation bid thee rise
    ...
  • 3.
    I am not daunted by the show of things,
    Nor do I pass them with averted eyes,
    Feigning I do not see, nor on the wings
    Of fair deluding fancy lightly rise
    ...
  • 4.
    FROM all division let our land be free,
    For God has made her one: complete she lies
    Within the unbroken circle of the skies,
    And round her indivisible the sea
    ...
  • 5.
    Dear lowly flower that liftest up
    Among the grass thy golden cup,
    I take thee from thy earthly bed
    And plant thee in my heart instead.
    ...
  • 6.
    HOW long, O Lord, shall this, my country, be
    A nation of the dead? How long shall they
    Who seek their own and live but for the day,
    My country hinder from her destiny?
    ...
Total 6 Rise Poems by William Gay

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