Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REST AND BE THANKFUL!' AT THE HEAD OF GLENCROE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doubling and doubling with laborious walk Last Line: Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss that angels share Subject(s): Rest; Peace | ||||||||
At the Head of Glencroe. Doubling and doubling with laborious walk, Who, that has gained at length the wished-for Height, This brief, this simple wayside Call can slight, And rests not thankful? Whether cheered by talk With some loved friend, or by the unseen hawk Whistling to clouds and sky-born streams, that shine At the sun's outbreak, as with light divine, Ere they descend to nourish root and stalk Of valley flowers. Nor, while the limbs repose, Will we forget that, as the fowl can keep Absolute stillness, poised aloft in air, And fishes front, unmoved, the torrent's sweep,''" So may the Soul, through powers that Faith bestows, Win rest, and ease, and peace, with bliss that Angels share. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOW MANY NIGHTS by GALWAY KINNELL THE MOTTO by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON THE TRUE BEATITUDE by RUPERT BROOKE MAKING PEACE by DENISE LEVERTOV TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 1 by YEHUDA AMICHAI TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2 by YEHUDA AMICHAI A JEWISH FAMILY; IN A SMALL VALLEY OPPOSITE ST. GOAR by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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