O SWEET sincerity! - Where modern methods be What scope for thine and thee? Life may be sad past saying, Its greens for ever graying, Its faiths to dust decaying; And youth may have foreknown it, And riper seasons shown it, But custom cries: 'Disown it: 'Say ye rejoice, though grieving, Believe, while unbelieving, Behold, without perceiving!' - Yet, would men look at true things, And unilluded view things, And count to bear undue things, The real might mend the seeming, Facts better their foredeeming, And Life its disesteeming. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SWALLOW FLIGHT by SARA TEASDALE THE YEAR'S AWAKENING by THOMAS HARDY THE ANGEL'S WHISPER by SAMUEL LOVER THE ANGEL'S SONG; CAROL by EDMUND HAMILTON SEARS THE LAST CAESAR, 1851-1870 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |