WE deem them moderate, but Enough implore, What barely will suffice, and ask no more: Who say, (O Jove) a competency give, Neither in Luxury, or Want we'd live. But what is that, which these Enough do call? If both the Indies unto some should fall, Such Wealth would yet Enough but onely be, And what they'd term not Want, or Luxury. Among the Suits, O Jove, my humbler take; A little give, I that Enough will make. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ by ROBERT HERRICK WAITING FOR THE GRAPES by WILLIAM MAGINN TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE THE EMIGRANT LASSIE by JOHN STUART BLACKIE SIC VITA by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE FAREWELLS FROM PARADISE by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE PANG MORE SHARP THAN ALL; AN ALLEGORY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |