Hope by Alice Dunbar-Nelson

We Are on a Brief Hiatus

July 26, 2020 from Letters from an American by Heather Cox Richardson

Hope by Alice Dunbar-Nelson

07/28/2020

Published under fair use from Poets.org.

Hope by Alice Dunbar-Nelson - 1875-1935

Wild seas of tossing, writhing waves,

A wreck half-sinking in the tortuous gloom;

One man clings desperately, while Boreas raves,

And helps to blot the rays of moon and star,

Then comes a sudden flash of light, which gleams on shores afar.

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