Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASOLANDO: HUMILITY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What girl but, having gathered flowers Last Line: Not the worst bud -- who can tell? Subject(s): Humility | ||||||||
WHAT girl but, having gathered flowers, Stript the beds and spoilt the bowers, From the lapful light she carries Drops a careless bud? -- nor tarries To regain the waif and stray: "Store enough for home" -- she'll say. So say I too: give your lover Heaps of loving -- under, over, Whelm him -- make the one the wealthy! Am I all so poor who -- stealthy Work it was! -- picked up what fell: Not the worst bud -- who can tell? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HERETIC: 4. HUMILITY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER I THINK CONSTANTLY OF THOSE WHO WERE TRULY GREAT by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE THE SHEPHERD BOY'S SONG, FR. THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS by JOHN BUNYAN THE HAPPIEST HEART by JOHN VANCE CHENEY THE RESOLVE by MARY LEE CHUDLEIGH CHARITAS NIMIA; OR THE DEAR BARGAIN by RICHARD CRASHAW THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD by SAM WALTER FOSS CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK TOWER CAME' by ROBERT BROWNING |
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