Teach me to number my days! Lead me to count them aright. In the heavenly reckoning ways. As they stand in the angels' keen sight. I number them ''" year upon year; They number them ''" act upon act. I figure by calendars drear; They figure by motive and fact. I am old as the decades go by, I am young in wisdom and grace; Time's heralds remorselessly fly. My soul has a cowardly pace. I would know the arithmetic law That reckons the worth of a thought, And shows how the ages draw On the work a moment has wrought. Oh, teach me to number my days, As the clerks record them above. By purpose and kindness and praise. And courage and worship and love! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEAR PRESIDENT by JOHN JAMES PIATT EPITAPHIUM CITHARISTRIAE by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR BALLADE OF BROKEN FLUTES by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON OF THE LAST VERSES IN THE BOOK by EDMUND WALLER SONNET TO HOPE by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS SUNSET-MOOD by STANLEY E. BABB |