PRAY give the "Atlantic" A brief unpedantic Review of Miss Phelps' book, Which teaches and helps folk To deal with the offenders In love which surrenders All pride unforgiving, The lost one receiving With truthful believing That she like all others, Our sisters and brothers, Is only a sinner Whom God's love within her Can change to the whiteness Of heaven's own brightness. For who shall see tarnish If He sweep and garnish? When He is the cleanser Shall we dare to censure? Say to Fields, if he ask of it, I can't take the task of it. P.S. -- For myself, if I'm able, And half comfortable, I shall run for the seashore To some place as before, Where blunt we at least find The teeth of the East wind, And spring does not tarry As it does at Amesbury; But where it will be to I cannot yet see to. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE BEAR by EDITH SITWELL DRINKING SONG, FR. THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN ON THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF READING MATTER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS JEWEL-WEED by FLORENCE EARLE COATES LINES COMPOSED WHILE CLIMBING THE LEFT ASCENT OF BROCKLEY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1787 by WILLIAM COWPER |