Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, QUIET THINGS, by I. W.


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QUIET THINGS, by                    
First Line: I thank the lord for quiet things
Last Line: Of lonely pools and streams.
Subject(s): Religion; Serenity; Theology


I thank the Lord for quiet things
Whose names are half-asleep;
Names that were born of quietness
And laid in peace to steep;
Such lovely, safe, serene old words
As dovecotes—hills—and sheep.

For silent sober-colored things
I bless the Lord of dreams—
This Heron standing motionless,
More shade than bird he seems—
For this grey, ghostly fisherman
Of lonely pools and streams.





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