William Vaughn Moody

Passion is power,
And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare
Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.

William Vaughn Moody (July 8 1869 – October 17 1910) was a U.S. dramatist and poet.

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• Time softly there
  Laughs through the abyss of radiance with the gods.
  • The Fire-Bringer (1904), Act i.

• The gods despise enforcèd offerings.
  When the heart brings its dearest and its last
  Then only will they hear—if then, if then!
  • The Fire-Bringer (1904), Act ii.

• Hark, below, the many-voiced earth,
  The chanting of the old religious trees,
  Rustle of far-off waters, woven sounds
  Of small and multitudinous lives awake,
  Peopling the grasses and the pools with joy,
  Uttering their meaning to the mystic night!
  • The Fire-Bringer (1904), Act ii.

• Passion is power,
  And, kindly tempered, saves. All things declare
  Struggle hath deeper peace than sleep can bring.
  • The Masque of Judgment (1900), Act iii. Sc. 2.

External links

• Poem Hunter
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