OVER that pallid face were wrought The characters of painful thought; But on that lip, and in that eye, Were patience, faith, and piety; The hope that is not of this earth, The peace that has in pain its birth; As if the tumult of this life, Its sorrow, vanity, and strife, Had been but as the lightning's shock, Shedding rich ore upon the rock: Though in the trial scorched and riven, The gold it wins, is gold from heaven. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STREET LANTERNS by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES by JOHN KEATS ROUGE BOUQUET [MARCH 7, 1918] by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER HERE ENTER NOT by KATHARINE CANBY BALDERSTON TO ROBERT BURNS; AN EPISTLE ON INSTINCT by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |