TAKE Temperance to thy breast, While yet is the hour of choosing, As arbitress exquisite Of all that shall thee betide; For better than fortune's best Is mastery in the using, And sweeter than anything sweet The art to lay it aside! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PROBLEM by RALPH WALDO EMERSON AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 3. AFTER THE CLUB-DANCE by THOMAS HARDY DURING WIND AND RAIN by THOMAS HARDY BEYOND THE POTOMAC by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE DANNY DEEVER by RUDYARD KIPLING THE MERCHANT OF VENICE; A LEGEND OF ITALY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |