Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EXPERIENCE, by GLADYS CROMWELL


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EXPERIENCE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no need for you to cheer or nerve
Last Line: That where I stand all beauty is the same.
Subject(s): Experience; Growth


THERE is no need for you to cheer or nerve
My spirit forward; for the days advise;
The years have counselled me. I recognize
No change from joy to sadness. I observe
No variation. Like the simple curve
Earth follows, meeting Spring and Winter skies,
My life is one experience, implies
Continuous truth. When it appears to swerve,
To mount from sadness into joy, or sink
To sadness with a wayward cruelty,
'Tis only so to you who watch. You think
That I must feel contrasting moods. You name
Them joy and pain. You have not skill to see
That where I stand all beauty is the same.





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