Name: A Summer's Poems
Author: Francis J. Lys

Quotes from A Summer's Poems (Francis J. Lys)

“ Quenched are the beacon lights that brightly burned,
Distant the guiding voices that were near;
The frolic temper of the prime is turned
To weariness, and faith is dimmed with fear:
What if one battle against the beating waves,
Who knows if he shall win the haven he craves?
Where lies the haven, or if there be in sooth
Some haven of peace for them that wrestle and fight—
Who shall be bold to take his trust for truth,
The gleams he follows for the world's one light,
When to his fellows' eyes as naught they seem,
Or but false phantoms of a fading dream? ”

[↩︎]

Source: Gutenberg

Francis J. Lys, A Summer's Poems

“ The goal of our vision hath,
And closer the dark cliffs draw
Frowning about our path;
And seldom they part to disclose
Issue or choice anew,
But the track that the child once chose,
The man must still pursue.
XII.
To R. H. K. and J. M. K.
Summer is fled, and the skies are weeping
For withered blossom and faded scent,
And over the face of the forest is creeping
A flush of fever with pale fear blent,
And even the brows of the mountains borrow
From the gray cloud-fleeces a scarf of sorrow. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Gutenberg

Francis J. Lys, A Summer's Poems

“ Coursing exultantly through and through
His veins, and giving him life anew.
So awhile he rejoiced, scarce heedful why,
And the days went sweetly and swiftly by;
Alas! too swiftly over and lost,
Like blossoms of summer seared by the frost,
That feel more bitter the wintry spite
Because of the fulness of past delight. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Gutenberg

Francis J. Lys, A Summer's Poems

“ Strange sweet dream-music that he seems to know,
And dimly sees old faces that made bright
The days of childhood with love's softest light:
Like one beneath the glimmering starlight treading
Ways unfamiliar save in the full sun,
He moves bewildered where remembrance, shedding
Faint fitful gleams, illumines one by one
Far-distant scenes where life was first begun,
Quick with light-hearted fancies and fresh hope,
Fearless and steadfast with all foes to cope ”

[↩︎]

Source: Gutenberg

Francis J. Lys, A Summer's Poems

“ Sure naught but God's own truth such following hath.
Faint the gleams flicker through the earthborn cloud;
Trust thou and follow where they seem to lead;
Soon will thy sight be clearer, and the shroud
Of night be shrivelled, and the day succeed:
Light may be stained or hidden, yet 'tis light ”

[↩︎]

Source: Gutenberg

Francis J. Lys, A Summer's Poems

“ To falter and fail, or battle towards the goal
Unyielding; and at times our hearts rejoice,
When borne from out the distance comes a voice
Of brother-men that in the self-same strife
Have fought through weakness and have won their life. ”

[↩︎]

Source: Gutenberg

Francis J. Lys, A Summer's Poems

“ Of rancorous spite and greed gat strength to rise,
Borne on the vaporous breath of poisoning lies,
Through realms that had shone pure with peace profound,
Then wintry grief upon her bright face froze,
And her white wings she spread, and soaring high,
Where the unsealed mountain meets the sky,
Mantled her in a robe of ageless snows:
Thence in the sobbing breeze is borne her sigh,
Thence her far voice that once was heard anigh.
XI.
THE WAYS OF LIFE.
Narrower day by day
Shrinks the valley we thread ”

Francis J. Lys

Summary

Quotes from A Summer's Poems (Francis J. Lys)

Get perspective with Kwize: daily news enlightened by great literature

Francis J. Lys

Summary

Quotes from A Summer's Poems (Francis J. Lys)

Common terms

Similar works

Get perspective with Kwize: daily news enlightened by great literature