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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE DEPTHS, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not sweet content, be sure
Last Line: Alas, who live not to detect.
First Line: It is not sweet content, be sure
Last Line: Alas, who live not to detect.
IT is not sweet content, be sure,
That moves the nobler Muse to song,
Yet when could truth come whole and pure
From hearts that inly writhe with wrong?
'Tis not the calm and peaceful breast
That sees or reads the problem true;
They only know on whom 't has prest
Too hard to hope to solve it too.
Our ills are worse than at their ease
These blameless happy souls suspect,
They only study the disease,
Alas, who live not to detect.
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