TRYING, trying -- always trying -- Falling down to save a fall; Living by the dint of dying, -- This is all! Giving, giving -- always giving -- Gathering just abroad to cast; Dying by the dint of living At the last! Sighing, smiling -- smiling, sighing -- Sun in shade, and shade in sun; Dying, living -- living, dying -- Both in one! Hoping in our very fearing, Striving hard against our strife; Drifting in the stead of steering, -- This is life! Seeming to believe in seeming, Half disproving, to approve; Knowing that we dream, in dreaming, -- This is love! Being in our weakness stronger, -- Living where there is no breath; Feeling harm can harm no longer, -- This is death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EARLY MORN by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES REBEL MOTHER'S LULLABY by SHANE LESLIE THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 1770 by PHILLIS WHEATLEY PRINCE ALDFRITH'S ITINERARY THROUGH IRELAND by ALDFRITH PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 18. AL-RAZZAK by EDWIN ARNOLD |