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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ANSWER, by GEORGE HERBERT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My comforts drop and melt away like snow
Last Line: Which they that know the rest, know more then I.
First Line: My comforts drop and melt away like snow
Last Line: Which they that know the rest, know more then I.
MY comforts drop and melt away like snow:
I shake my head, and all the thoughts and ends,
Which my fierce youth did bandie, fall and flow
Like leaves about me, or like summer-friends,
Flyes of estates and sunne-shine. But, to all
Who think me eager, hot, and undertaking,
But in my prosecutions slack and small;
As a young exhalation, newly waking,
Scorns his first bed of dirt, and means the sky;
But, cooling by the way, grows pursie and slow,
And settling to a cloud, doth live and die
In that dark state of tears: to all, that so
Show me, and set me, I have one reply,
Which they that know the rest, know more then I.
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