Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PRAYER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poet's Biography First Line: Let me work and be glad Last Line: Let me work and be glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Prayer; Spring | ||||||||
LET me work and be glad, O Lord, and I ask no more; With will to turn where the sunbeams burn At the sill of my workshop door. Aforetime I prayed my prayer For the glory and gain of earth, But now grown wise and with opened eyes, I have seen what the prayer was worth. Give me my work to do And peace of the task well done; Youth of the Spring and its blossoming And the light of the moon and sun. Pleasure of little things That never may pall or end, And fast in my hold no lesser gold Than the honest hand of a friend. Let me forget in time Folly of dreams that I had; Give me my share of a world most fair -- Let me work and be glad. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD A BOOK OF CELTIC VERSE (TO SEUMAS MACMANUS) by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON |
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