REST remains when all is done, Work and vigil, prayer and fast, All fulfilled from first to last, All the length of time gone past And eternity begun. Fear and hope and chastening rod Urge us on the narrow way: Bear we now as best we may Heat and burden of to-day, Struggling, panting up to God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 1. AT TEA by THOMAS HARDY I SHALL NOT CARE by SARA TEASDALE THE CLOUDS: SOCRATES' EXPERIMENTS by ARISTOPHANES CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: DEDICATION TO R. WENMAN by WILLIAM BASSE RESENTIENTS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF 'I'LL HAVE MY LOVE, OR I'LL HAVE ONE' by PATRICK CAREY |