Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: V. The Arts | | Beethoven’s Third Symphony | | Richard Hovey (1864–1900) |
| | | PASSION and pain, the outcry of despair, | |
| The pang of the unattainable desire, | |
| And youth’s delight in pleasures that expire, | |
| And sweet high dreamings of the good and fair | |
| Clashing in swift soul-storm, through which no prayer | 5 |
| Uplifted stays the destined death-stroke dire. | |
| Then through a mighty sorrowing, as through fire, | |
| The soul burnt pure yearns forth into the air | |
| Of the dear earth and, with the scent of flowers | |
| And song of birds assuaged, takes heart again, | 10 |
| Made cheerier with this drinking of God’s wine, | |
| And turns with healing to the world of men, | |
| And high above a sweet strong angel towers, | |
| And Love makes life triumphant and divine. | | | | |
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