LET not soft slumber close my eyes, Before I've recollected thrice The train of action through the day! Where have my feet chose out their way? What have I learnt, where'er I've been, From all I have heard, from all I've seen? What know I more that's worth the knowing? What have I done that's worth the doing? What have l sought that I shoul shun? What duty have I left undone? Or into what new follies run? These self-inquiries are the road That leads to virtue and to God. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MADAGASCAR: AUBADE by WILLIAM DAVENANT ALONE (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE VOICELESS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES SESTINA OF THE TRAMP ROYAL by RUDYARD KIPLING FOREIGN CHILDREN by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON IDYLLS OF THE KING: TO THE QUEEN by ALFRED TENNYSON |