Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FIRST IMPRESSIONS, by ALFRED GRANT WALTON First Line: It is not right to judge a man Last Line: May also come to like him too! Subject(s): Prejudice; Bias; Intolerance | ||||||||
It is not right to judge a man By hasty glance or passing whim, Or think that first impressions can Tell all there is to know of him. Who knows what weight of weariness The man we rashly judge may bear, The burden of his loneliness. His blighted hopes, his secret care. A pompous guise or air of pride May only be an outward screen, A compensation meant to hide A baffled will, a grief unseen. However odd a person seems, However strange his ways may be, Within each human spirit gleams A spark of true divinity. So what can first impressions tell? Unthinking judgments will not do, Who really knows a person well May also come to like him too! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MINOR CHARACTER IN AN OBSCURE LEGEND by PETER JOHNSON WOLVERINE by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON ELEGY WRITTEN AFTER READING THE 'SORROWS OF WERTER' by ROBERT MERRY INTOLERANCE by RAY TRUM NATHAN TOWN AND COUNTRY by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY PREJUDICE by JOHN BANISTER TABB RECIPE FOR LIVING by ALFRED GRANT WALTON THE SINCERE MAN by ALFRED GRANT WALTON THE WORLD WE MAKE by ALFRED GRANT WALTON CAPPER KAPLINSKI AT THE NORTH SIDE CUE CLUB by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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