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GOOD HOPE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THE CUP OF LIFE IS NOT SO SHALLOW
Last Line: THAN ANGELO RELEASED.
Subject(s): HOPE; MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564); OPTIMISM;
The cup of life is not so shallow
That we have drained the best,
That all the wine at once we swallow,
And lees make all the rest.

Maids of as soft a bloom shall marry
As Hymen yet hath blessed,
And fairer forms are in the quarry
Than Angelo released.



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