I WHICH is the weakest thing of all Mine heart can ponder? The sun, a little cloud can pall With darkness yonder? The cloud, a little wind can move Where'er it listeth? The wind, a little leaf above, Though sere, resisteth? II What time that yellow leaf was green, My days were gladder; But now, whatever Spring may mean, I must grow sadder. Ah me! a leaf with sighs can wring My lips asunder? Then is mine heart the weakest thing Itself can ponder. III Yet, Heart, when sun and cloud are pined And drop together, And at a blast which is not wind The forests wither, Thou, from the darkening deathly curse To glory breakest, -- The Strongest of the universe Guarding the weakest! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JEALOUS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE FOUR WINDS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MODERN LOVE: 43 by GEORGE MEREDITH FESTE'S SONG (1), FR. TWELFTH NIGHT by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE INDIGNANT CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TO MR. MONTGOMERY; OCCASIONED BY ... ATTACK ON HIS POEMS by LUCY AIKEN PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 83. YA MALIK by EDWIN ARNOLD PSALM 125 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE CLEVEDON VERSES: 7. NORTON WOOD (DORA'S BIRTHDAY) by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |