Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SORROWS AND JOYS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise Last Line: And warned by yearning sympathies. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight | ||||||||
BURY thy sorrows, and they shall rise As souls to the immortal skies, And there look down like mothers' eyes. But let thy joys be fresh as flowers, That suck the honey of the showers, And bloom alike on huts and towers. So shall thy days be sweet and bright; Solemn and sweet thy starry night, Conscious of love each change of light. The stars will watch the flowers asleep, The flowers will feel the soft stars weep, And both will mix sensations deep. With these below, with those above, Sits evermore the brooding dove, Uniting both in bonds of love. For both by nature are akin; Sorrow, the ashen fruit of sin, And joy, the juice of life within. Children of earth are these; and those The spirits of divine repose -- Death radiant o'er all human woes. O, think what then had been thy doom, If homeless and without a tomb They had been left to haunt the gloom! O, think again what now they are -- Motherly love, tho' dim and far, Imaged in every lustrous star. For they, in their salvation, know No vestige of their former woe, While thro' them all the heavens do flow. Thus art thou wedded to the skies, And watched by ever-loving eyes, And warned by yearning sympathies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS by KENNETH KOCH SO MUCH HAPPINESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE CROWD CONDITIONS by JOHN ASHBERY I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS by MARVIN BELL DIRGE IN WOODS by GEORGE MEREDITH |
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