Arts & Sciences

Michelangelo

by Vachel Lindsay 1879–1931

From General William Booth Enters into Heaven, and Other Poems (1913)

Arts & Sciences

Would I might wake in you the whirl-wind soul
Of Michelangelo, who hewed the stone
And Night and Day revealed, whose arm alone
Could draw the face of God, the titan high
Whose genius smote like lightning from the sky--
And shall he mold like dead leaves in the grave?
Nay he is in us! Let us dare and dare.
God help us to be brave.

MLA

Lindsay, Vachel. “Michelangelo.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/33/.

Chicago

Lindsay, Vachel. “Michelangelo.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/33/.

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