A Prayer For My Daughter
That all her thoughts may like the linnet be,
May well be of all evil chances chief.
My mind, because the minds that I have loved,
Because of her opinionated mind
The heart-revealing intimacy
Are innocence and beauty born?
Loved and thought himself beloved,
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
And many a poor man that has roved,
Whereby the Horn of Plenty is undone.
Barter that horn and every good
May she become a flourishing hidden tree
Yet many, that have played the fool
And later had much trouble f九_九_藏_書rom a fool,
In the elms above the flooded stream;
Lose natural kindness and maybe
Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Yet knows that to be choked with hate
Assault and battery of the wind
A crazy salad with their meat
She can, though every face should scowl
And may her bridegroom bring her to a house
Bred on the Atlantic, can be stay
九_九_藏_書ed;Because of the great gloom that is in my mind.
In courtesy Id have her chiefly learned;
Nor but in merriment a quarrel.
Ceremonys a name for the rich horn,
By quiet natures understood
And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
My child sleeps on. There is no obstacle
If theres no hatred in a mind
Beauty to make a strangers eye distraught,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
Under this cradle-hood and coverliread.99csw.comd
Out of the mouth of Plentys horn,
For arrogance and hatred are the wares
Its certain that fine women eat
An intellectual hatred is the worst,
But Gregorys wood and one bare hill
How but in custom and in ceremony
Have I not seen the loveliest woman born
So let her think opinions are accursed.
Imagining in excited reverie
O may she live like some green laurel
Being fatherless could have her way
That the future years had come,
And that its own sweet will is Heavens will;
And under the arches of the bridge, and scr九九藏書eam
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Where alls accustomed, ceremonious;
Rooted in one dear perpetual place.
And have no business but dispensing round
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
Prosper but little, has dried up of late,
I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour
The soul recovers radical innocence
Peddled in the thoroughfares.
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
Nor but in merriment begin a chase,
For beautys very self, has charm made wise,
Their magnanimities of sound,
By those that are not entirely https://read.99csw.combeautiful;
And every windy quarter howl
And for an hour I have walked and prayed
Helen being chosen found life flat and dull
May she be granted beauty and yet not
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Whereby the haystack- and roof-levelling wind,
The sort of beauty that I have approved,
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
While that great Queen, that rose out of the spray,
Yet chose a bandy-leggèd smith for man.
And custom for the spreading laurel tree.
A Prayer For My Daughter
For an old bellows full of angry wind?