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July 19, 2020  

Hope.
Alice Dunbar-Nelson

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.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on July 19, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Hope.” originally appeared in Violets and Other Tales (The Monthly Review, 1895).

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson was born on July 19, 1875, in New Orleans. A teacher, poet, journalist, short-story writer, playwright, and activist for civil rights and women’s suffrage, her works include Violets and Other Tales (The Monthly Review, 1895) and The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1899). She died on September 18, 1935, in Philadelphia.
Violets and Other Tales
(The Monthly Review, 1895)

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