The Poets of the Future Author:Henry Thomas Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Woe! I saw it night enshrouded, Whipt by wind and washt by rain, Light of dawn and noon, beclouded, Joy and youth turned age and pain; Petals flying, ghos... more »tly, ghastly, To be trampled down the lane;— But the memory looming vastly Shall forever fair remain. Ah, and so shall early blooming Lose all sweetness young life gavef Rainy night-winds darkly dooming Pale pink-whiteness,—beauty brave f Youth's fresh hope go glooming, glooming. Scattered scentless in its grave, And ghost-memory, vastly looming, Be all later life shall save f Read Bain Willamette UniversityThe Road to Everywhere road I traveled yesterday, 1 Its walls are straight and high, And all along its trammelled way Old loves and sorrows lie, Fallen to dust and bones, and hid Each with a mould-heaped coverlid. Then why lament when earth is young, And summer blossoming? Many the songs that are not sung For my mute lips to sing! Many the dreams, like birds in air, That skim o'er the Road to Everywhere! The road I travel on today Is fair and very wide, Beside it blooms the hawthorne-spray And the deep country-side ; The daisies shake above my feet, And the light wind breathes pure and sweet. chapter{Section 4But broader far the dim blue space, The hills, the singing wind; Toward them, my soul, oh, turn thy face, And set thy feet to find,— And on for the wild, high things to dare, That throng o'er the Road to Everywhere! The rimless Road to Everywhere, Its ways are broad and free, A starry track, a cloudy stair, A cliff-path by the sea: Road of the heart, beneath my feet, That grows but as my footsteps beat! Why should today and yesterday With shadows drag me down, When all the world is a royal way That leads to a royal town,— To the...« less