VERY simple are my pleasures, -- O good angel, stay with me, While I number what they be, -- Easy 't is to count my treasures. Easy 't is, -- they are not many: Friends for love and company, O good angel grant to me; Strength to work; and is there any Man or woman, evil seeing In my daily walk and way, Grant, and give me grace to pray For a less imperfect being. Grant a larger light, and better, To inform my foe and me, So we quickly shall agree; Grant forgiveness to my debtor. Make my heart, I pray, of kindness Always full, as clouds of showers; Keep my mortal eyes from blindness; I would see the sun and flowers. From temptation pray deliver; And, good angel, grant to me That my heart be grateful ever: Herein all my askings be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MERELY STATEMENT by AMY LOWELL DOMESDAY BOOK: ALMA BELL TO THE CORONER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS PICKING AND CHOOSING by MARIANNE MOORE THE KIND MOON by SARA TEASDALE BALLADE MADE FOR HIS MOTHER THAT SHE MIGHTE PRAYE by FRANCOIS VILLON |