After Failure
The careful, unremitting work I did has not availed. I gave my best to one large task, And now I know I failed. Today I’ll do the little things, The things I can do best. I’ll do the little, easy things And give my heart a rest. A dozen little things, well done, Will lighten […]
The One-Talent Man
A trusting eager child, he was derided, Made shrinkingly aware of lack of worth When one he loved rejected work he prided Himself on, and he hid it in the earth. So later, entrusted with one precious thing, He his it lest he lost it, for he fearer. He bears his punishment; and time will […]
Severance
How long a single night can be We learned with anguished care. Eternity was every hour The night you entered there. And even when the throbbing gold Of day thrilled down the lawn, We gazed with unfamiliar eyes, Having no use for dawn. –written in November 1949, published first in ‘Window on Eternity’