Social Commentaries
A Cry in the Night
From The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899)
Social Commentaries
Wail, wail, wail,
For the fleering world goes down:
Into the song of the poet pale
Mixes the laugh of the clown.
Grim, grim, grim,
Is the road we go to the dead;
Yet we must on, for a Something dim
Pushes the soul ahead.
Where, where, where,
Through the dust and shadow of things
Will the fleeing Fates with their wild manes bear
These tribes of slaves and kings?
Cite this poem
MLA
Markham, Edwin. “A Cry in the Night.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/markham/44/.
Chicago
Markham, Edwin. “A Cry in the Night.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/markham/44/.
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