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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
UNDERSTANDING, by H. W. BLISS First Line: How blind men are! We surely cannot know Last Line: May it be with understanding that we live! | |||
How blind men are! We surely cannot know And judge the way men go! Perhaps the grind of hectic years Has won at last. How sharp -- how cruel can human judgments be! The inmost heart of men we cannot see. Thus has it been since time began; Lay down the bruising stones we cast. Of all the virtues which heaven has to give -- May it be with understanding that we live! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM THE USE OF FLOWERS by MARY HOWITT URANIA; THE WOMAN IN THE MOON: THE FOURTH CANTO, OR LAST QUARTER by WILLIAM BASSE BLACKSMITH PAIN by OTTO JULIUS BIERBAUM EPIGRAM: 27. TO ARATUS by CALLIMACHUS IN A COPY OF BROWNING by BLISS CARMAN SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 41 by BLISS CARMAN TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. IN A MANUFACTURING TOWN by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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