Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LITTLENESS OF LIFE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is so little in its vanities Last Line: To their own wretched level nobler things. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Life; Vanity | ||||||||
LIFE is so little in its vanities, So mean, and looking to such worthless aim, Truly the dust, of which we are a part, Predominates amid mortality. Great crimes have something of nobility; Mighty their warning, vast is their remorse: But these small faults, they make one half of life Belong to lowest natures, and reduce To their own wretched level nobler things. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THROUGH A GLASS EYE, LIGHTLY by CAROLYN KIZER EPITAPH: FOR A PREACHER by COUNTEE CULLEN THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT by ANNE BRADSTREET THE TENTH MUSE: THE VANITY OF ALL WORLDLY THINGS by ANNE BRADSTREET THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH by ROBERT BROWNING ALL IS VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER' by GEORGE GORDON BYRON AGING: ON THE VANITY OF EARTHLY GREATNESS by ARTHUR GUITERMAN THE SPIDER AND THE FLY by MARY HOWITT CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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