Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTENTMENT, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a virtue, as the sages say Last Line: And there is fair play between weak and strong. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Contentment | ||||||||
Is it a virtue, as the sages say, The "trivial round and common task" to ply, And for no wider walk of life to sigh Than we were born to; sweetly, day by day, Our meed of lowly reverence to pay Our high-placed "betters"; never to defy The powers that be; never to kick or cry, Or think, or question -- simply to obey? Then vice be with us, although blood be shed. No pact with powers partizan and blind; No peace with Custom that makes right of wrong. We shall content us when the starved are fed When men and brothers are agreed and kind, And there is fair play between weak and strong. | 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 |
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