I PUT my heart to school In the world where men grow wise: "Go out," I said, "and learn the rule; "Come back when you win a prize." My heart came back again: "Now where is the prize?" I cried. -- "The rule was false, and the prize was pain, "And the teacher's name was Pride." I put my heart to school In the woods where veeries sing And brooks run clear and cool, In the fields where wild flowers spring. "And why do you stay so long, "My heart, and where do you roam?" The answer came with a laugh and a song, -- "I find this school is home." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A WISH by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 14 by ALFRED TENNYSON HOUSEHOLD POEMS: 1. BRONWEN by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS STANZAS ON THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS by BERNARD BARTON |