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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIDDEN JOYS, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poet's Biography
First Line: Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem
Last Line: Peeps sparkling, and in tones familiar sings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman
Subject(s): Pleasure
First Line: Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem
Last Line: Peeps sparkling, and in tones familiar sings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman
Subject(s): Pleasure
PLEASURES lie thickest where no pleasures seem:
There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground
But holds some joy, of silence, or of sound,
Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.
The very meanest things are made supreme
With innate ecstacy. No grain of sand
But moves a bright and million-peopled land,
And hath its Edens and its Eves, I deem.
For Love, though blind himself, a curious eye
Hath lent me, to behold the hearts of things,
And touch'd mine ear with power. Thus, far or nigh,
Minute or mighty, fix'd or free with wings,
Delight from many a nameless covert sly
Peeps sparkling, and in tones familiar sings.
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