How often, for some trivial wrong, In anger, we retaliate, We learn, although it takes us long, That life is far too brief for hate. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVE OF ST. AGNES by JOHN KEATS THE POSY RING by CLEMENT MAROT IDYLL 11. THE CYCLOPS by THEOCRITUS EPITAPHS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 3 by WILLIAM BASSE THE BORDER by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. TO A FRIEND, WHO HAD DECLARED INTENTION OF WRITING NO MORE POETRY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |