Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHEERFULNESS TAUGHT BY REASON, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think we are too ready with complaint Last Line: Because the way is short, I thank thee, god.' Subject(s): Contentment | ||||||||
I THINK we are too ready with complaint In this fair world of God's. Had we no hope Indeed beyond the zenith and the slope Of yon gray blank of sky, we might grow faint To muse upon eternity's constraint Round our aspirant souls; but since the scope Must widen early, is it well to droop, For a few days consumed in loss and taint? O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road, Singing beside the hedge. What if the bread Be bitter in thine inn, and thou unshod To meet the flints? At least it may be said 'Because the way is short, I thank thee, God.' | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHE: SONNET 66 by BARNABE BARNES I UNCOIL MYSELF AND LIE STRAIGHT OUT by DAVID IGNATOW WITHOUT RECRIMINATION by DAVID IGNATOW EVENTIDE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL by DORIANNE LAUX TO TWO UNKNOWN LADIES by AMY LOWELL A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |
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