What thing is that that I both have and lack, With goodwill granted and yet it is denied, Always forward and yet full fair put back, Ever more doing and yet unoccupied, Most slow in that that I have most applied, Whereby I see I lose all that I win, For that that was ready is new to begin? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INEVITABLY (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO W.E.B. DUBOIS - SCHOLAR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IN THE DAYS OF PRISMATIC COLOR by MARIANNE MOORE BALLAD OF THE LORDS OF OLD TIME by FRANCOIS VILLON SACRED ELEGY: 5. THE SEPARATION OF MAN FROM GOD by GEORGE BARKER |