Straight through my heart this fact to-day,
By Truth-s own hand is driven:
God never takes one thing away,
But something else is given.
I did not know in earlier years,
This law of love and kindness;
I only mourned through bitter tears
My loss, in sorrow-s blindness.
But, ever following each regret
O-er some departed treasure,
My sad repining heart was met
With unexpected pleasure.
I thought is only happened so;
But time this truth taught me -
No least thing from my life can go,
But something else is brought to me.
It is the Law, complete, sublime;
And now, with Faith unshaken,
In patience I but bide my time
When any joy is taken.
No matter if the crushing blow
May for the moment down me,
Still, back of it waits Love, I know
With some new gift to crown me.
Recompense
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
(1)
Poem topics: away, faith, god, joy, life, loss, never, sad, sorrow, pleasure, kindness, crown, moment, treasure, straight, patience, gift, bitter, complete, regret, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about Recompense poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Best Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox