I PUT my heart to school In the world where men grow wise: "Go out," I said, "and learn the rule; "Come back when you win a prize." My heart came back again: "Now where is the prize?" I cried. -- "The rule was false, and the prize was pain, "And the teacher's name was Pride." I put my heart to school In the woods where veeries sing And brooks run clear and cool, In the fields where wild flowers spring. "And why do you stay so long, "My heart, and where do you roam?" The answer came with a laugh and a song, -- "I find this school is home." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADMIRER by CLAUDIA EMERSON TWILIGHT AT THE HEIGHTS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER DESERT WIFE by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER ASOLANDO: FLUTE-MUSIC, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT by ROBERT BROWNING ANOTHER SIMPLE BALLAT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON CIVILIZED by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN THE DESTROYING ANGEL by ABRAHAM COWLEY MID-DAY AT TRINITY by NATHALIA CRANE TRANSCENDENTAL FUGUE (FOR WILLIAM R. FULLER) by JR. DARK ROBERT L. |