Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HELP ME TODAY, by ELSIE ROBINSON First Line: This day, I think, will be a common day Last Line: Help me today. | ||||||||
This day, I think, will be a common day, Devoid of venture, risk or thrill or show; Eight working hours, plodding in a row Like lagging sheep, whose herder I must be -- And You, who made me, know I hate such days! I can face danger or the press of haste, Cruel shock or sudden uproar and alarm, Or I can laugh and play the merry clown, Or act a part to mask some desperate need -- But something limps in me when days are dull. And so I ask Your help this common day. Help me keep sweet when there is none to see; Help me be patient though there be no praise, And brave without the spotlight or applause, And honest, in the secret, unseen acts. Dear Friend, whom I can feel but cannot see, Help me today. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A TIRED PRAYER by ELSIE ROBINSON BEAUTY AS A SHIELD by ELSIE ROBINSON PRAYER FROM A WORKING GIRL by ELSIE ROBINSON ON READING -- . by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE PINES AND THE SEA by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH LESSER EPISTLES: TO A YOUNG LADY WITH SOME LAMPREYS by JOHN GAY THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD: SONG by OLIVER GOLDSMITH NEW YORK AT NIGHT by AMY LOWELL EPIGRAM by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS |
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