"A Commonplace Life", by Susan Coolidge

[med_cat]

A commonplace life, we say, and we sigh;
  But why should we sigh as we say?
The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky
  Makes up the commonplace day.
The moon and the stars are commonplace things,
  The flower that blooms, and the bird that sings;
But sad were the world, and dark our lot,
  If flowers failed and the sun shone not.
And God, who sees each separate soul,
  Out of commonplace lives makes His beautiful whole.

- Susan Coolidge (pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey)

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[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

that is sweet

another please...

; )

Re: yes

[med_cat]

You're welcome; pleased you liked it. :)

Another poem by the same author, you mean? ;)

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[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

yes please, more of that

; )

here you are :)

[med_cat]

Benedicam Domino.
A poem by Susan Coolidge
Thank God for life: life is not sweet always.
Hands may he heavy-laden, hearts care full,
Unwelcome nights follow unwelcome days,
And dreams divine end in awakenings dull.
Still it is life, anil life is cause for praise.
This ache, this restlessness, this quickening sting,
Prove me no torpid and inanimate thing,
Prove me of Him who is of life the Spring.
I am alive!--and that is beautiful.

Thank God for Love: though Love may hurt and wound
Though set with sharpest thorns its rose may be,
Roses are not of winter, all attuned
Must be the earth, full of soft stir, and free
And warm ere dawns the rose upon its tree.
Fresh currents through my frozen pulses run;
My heart has tasted summer, tasted sun,
And I can thank Thee, Lord, although not one
Of all the many roses blooms for me.

Susan Coolidge.

Here are more of her poems:

http://www.poetrycat.com/susan-coolidge

Re: here you are :)

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

thanks!

Re: here you are :)

[med_cat]

You're most welcome! Thanks to your inquiry, I've discovered some excellent poems I'd not heard of before :)

Re: here you are :)

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

; )

Re: here you are :)

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

the common one...

Unknown, unwooed, unwed, unwon
The common one has come undone

susie cool

Re: here you are :)

[med_cat]

Hmm ;) Perhaps.

Re: here you are :)

[pigshitpoet.livejournal.com]

perhaps, perhaps, perhaps...

; )

[bloodrebel333.livejournal.com]

Nice.

[med_cat]

Pleased you liked it :)