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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: SMALL GRIEFS AND GREAT, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: How oft by trivial griefs our spirits tossed
Last Line: A dreary watcher on a blasted height!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: How oft by trivial griefs our spirits tossed
Last Line: A dreary watcher on a blasted height!
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
How oft by trivial griefs our spirits tossed
Drift vague and restless round this changeful world!
Yet when great sorrows on our lives are hurled,
And fate on us has wreaked his uttermost,
O'er wounded breasts our steadfast arms are crossed;
We front the blast, silent, with unbowed head
And stoic mien; for fear with hope is dead;
And calm the voice which whispers: "All is lost!"
Thence to the end, our being, stripped and bare
Of love, and peace, and gracious joys of of earth,
Like some storm-shattered tree, its withered might
May lift defiant, dauntless in its dearth,
Seeming Death's bolt, that final stroke, to dare,
A dreary watcher on a blasted height!
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