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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORGIVENESS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart was heavy, for its trust had been
Last Line: Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency
First Line: My heart was heavy, for its trust had been
Last Line: Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency
MY heart was heavy, for its trust had been
Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong;
So, turning gloomily from my fellowmen,
One summer Sabbath day I strolled among
The green mounds of the village burial-place;
Where, pondering how all human love and hate
Find one sad level; and how, soon or late,
Wronged and wrongdoer, each with meekened face,
And cold hands folded over a still heart,
Pass the green threshold of our common grave,
Whither all footsteps tend, whence none depart,
Awed for myself, and pitying my race,
Our common sorrow, like a mighty wave,
Swept all my pride away, and trembling I forgave!
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