Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DISCONTENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light human nature is too lightly tost Last Line: God's chartered judgments walk for evermore. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; God | ||||||||
LIGHT human nature is too lightly tost And ruffled without cause, complaining on -- Restless with rest, until, being overthrown, It learneth to lie quiet. Let a frost Or a small wasp have crept to the innermost Of our ripe peach, or let the wilful sun Shine westward of our window, -- straight we run A furlong's sigh as if the world were lost. But what time through the heart and through the brain God hath transfixed us, -- we, so moved before, Attain to a calm. Ay, shouldering weights of pain, We anchor in deep waters, safe from shore, And hear submissive o'er the stormy main God's chartered judgments walk for evermore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOUNTAIN IS STRIPPED by DAVID IGNATOW AS CLOSE AS BREATHING by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 1 by MARK JARMAN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN BIRTH-DUES by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE SILENT SHEPHERDS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
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