WITH what thou gavest me, O Master, I have wrought. Such chances, such abilities, To see the end was not for my poor eyes, Thine was the impulse, thine the forming thought. Ah, I have wrought, And these sad hands have right to tell their story, It was no hard up striving after glory, Catching and losing, gaining and failing, Raging me back at the world's raucous railing. Simply and humbly from stone and from wood, Wrought I the things that to thee might seem good. If they are little, ah God! but the cost, Who but thou knowest the all that is lost! If they are few, is the workmanship true? Try them and weigh me, whate'er be my due! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO by WILFRED OWEN ZOLA by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON WHAT THE ENGINE SAYS by ALEXANDER ANDERSON ON FILE by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS L'AMOUR DU MENSONGE by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE TREES IN WINTER by ARTHUR WILLIAM BEER |