Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To love our god with all our strength and will Last Line: What is so hard but faith can do with ease? Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Faith; Worship; Belief; Creed | ||||||||
To love our God with all our strength and will; To covet nothing, to devise no ill Against our neighbors; to procure or do Nothing to others which we would not do Our very selves; not to revenge our wrong; To be content with little; not to long For wealth and greatness; to despise or jeer No man, and, if we be despised, to bear; To feed the hungry; to hold fast our crown; To take from others naught; to give our own These are his precepts, and alas, in these What is so hard but faith can do with ease? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 4 by MARK JARMAN QUIA ABSURDUM by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET TO FORTUNE by LUCY AIKEN JONATHAN EDWARDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS by ROBERT LOWELL |
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