Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEAR GIFTS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's best gifts are bought dearly. Wealth is won Last Line: How dark the penalty that it exacts! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Genius; Pleasure; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes | ||||||||
LIFE'S best gifts are bought dearly. Wealth is won By years of toil, and often comes too late: With pleasure comes satiety; and pomp Is compassed round with vexing vanities: And genius, earth's most glorious gift, that lasts When all beside is perished in the dust -- How bitter is the suffering it endures! How dark the penalty that it exacts! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 3. A HAIRPIN TURN ABOVE READING, JAMAICA by WILLIAM MATTHEWS IMAGINE YOURSELF by EVE MERRIAM THE PROPHET by LUCILLE CLIFTON I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD' by KENNETH REXROTH LAST VISIT TO THE SWIMMING POOL SOVIETS by KENNETH REXROTH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST by KENNETH REXROTH CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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