Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WEAKEST THING, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING


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First Line: Which is the weakest thing of all
Last Line: Guarding the weakest!
Subject(s): Weakness


I

WHICH is the weakest thing of all
Mine heart can ponder?
The sun, a little cloud can pall
With darkness yonder?
The cloud, a little wind can move
Where'er it listeth?
The wind, a little leaf above,
Though sere, resisteth?

II

What time that yellow leaf was green,
My days were gladder;
But now, whatever Spring may mean,
I must grow sadder.
Ah me! a leaf with sighs can wring
My lips asunder?
Then is mine heart the weakest thing
Itself can ponder.

III

Yet, Heart, when sun and cloud are pined
And drop together,
And at a blast which is not wind
The forests wither,
Thou, from the darkening deathly curse
To glory breakest, --
The Strongest of the universe
Guarding the weakest!





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