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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Earthborn, in earthly things much sport I find]
[Other men, we think]
[How short is the life of a man!]
[New things happen every day]
[Man's life is not too happy at the best]
[The cruellest of animals is Man]
[If too presumptuous 'twere to pray]
[What bodily and mental fuss]
[How grave (the child thinks) deep and wise]
[Just at the age when a man is clearest and firmest in mind]
[O were I but rid of these ties]
[What hinders me, you ask, to do my best?]
[Clever Youth of acquisitive turn]
[The Spirit said “Be on my side]
Dead Salt.
[I cannot see, but still I can conceive]
[O the swarm of trifles]
[How obey, yet be autocrat still?]
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Blackberries
[This is worth noting: wit's controll'd by dulness]
This
is worth noting: wit's controll'd by dulness;
The wise man's thought is seldom said in fulness;
Elixir to the souls of two or three,
Poison, he fears, to common men 'twould be.
Blackberries