SEE the rivers flowing Downwards to the sea, Pouring all their treasures Bountiful and free: Yet to help their giving Hidden springs arise; Or, if need be, showers Feed them from the skies! Watch the princely flowers Their rich fragrance spread, Load the air with perfumes, From their beauty shed: Yet their lavish spending Leaves them not in dearth, With fresh life replenished By their mother earth! Give thy heart's best treasures, -- From fair Nature learn; Give thy love -- and ask not, Wait not a return! And the more thou spendest From thy little store, With a double bounty God will give thee more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT CASTLE WOOD by EMILY JANE BRONTE LAST WORDS TO A DUMB FRIEND by THOMAS HARDY THE SANDPIPER by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER THE KNIGHTS: DEMOS REJUVENATED by ARISTOPHANES PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 14. AL-MUZAWWIR by EDWIN ARNOLD PSALM 135 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE |