Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CONFESSION, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poet's Biography First Line: I haven't always acted good Last Line: "and I'm your god, and you're my man." Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature | ||||||||
I HAVEN'T always acted good: I've taken things not meant for me; Not other people's drink and food, But things they never seemed to see. I haven't done the way I ought If all they say in church is true, But all I've had I've fairly bought, And paid for pretty heavy too. For days and weeks are very long If you get nothing new and bright, And if you never do no wrong Somehow you never do no right. The chap that daresent go a yard For fear the path should lead astray May be a saint -- though that seems hard, But he's no traveller, any way. Some things I can't be sorry for, The things that silly people hate: But some I did I do deplore, I knew, inside, they wasn't straight. And when my last account is filed, And stuck-up angels stop their song, I'll ask God's pardon like a child For what I really knew was wrong. If you've a child, you'd rather see A bit of temper, off and on, A greedy grab, a silly spree -- And then a brave thing said or done Than hear your boy whine all day long About the things he musn't do: Just doing nothing, right or wrong: And God may feel the same as you. For God's our Father, so they say, He made His laws and He made me; He'll understand about the way Me and His laws could not agree. He might say, "You're worth more, My son, Than all My laws since law began. Take good with bad -- here's something done -- And I'm your God, and you're My man." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL END OF THE WORLD by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE ANSWER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS TIME OF DISTURBANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE UNCHANGEABLE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A TIME PAST by DENISE LEVERTOV A BALLAD OF CANTERBURY by EDITH BLAND NESBIT |
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