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Lucy Larcom (Люси Ларком)


Burdened


No burden ever had I
That I would not have had;
Though times there were when I thought never again
To look up to heaven and be glad.
For, groaning and struggling on
With the throngs that laden go,
I saw, by the pack on my neighbor's back,
That mine was the lighter woe.

Unladen, heedless, unbent,
I never had known
That the fardel borne by each wight forlorn
Held something that was my own;
Something he bore for me
With a patient ignorance,
While my footprints lay as a blur on his way,
And hindered his soul's advance.

Just it was that on me
Some sorrow should fall;
No trouble alone is the trouble of one,
But each has a share in all.
And if on my aching neck
Another his burden laid,
Strength given for his day then he threw away,
Wherewith I was stronger made.

I know that we are not here
For our selfish ease;
The kingliest One that the earth has known
Lived not Himself to please.
And they who have learned of Him
How a burden can give rest,
And joyfully share the great human care, —
They have learned life's secret best.



Lucy Larcom's other poems:
  1. The Lily of Resurrection
  2. Mistress Hale of Beverly
  3. “Ye Shall Live Also“
  4. Thy Kingdom Come
  5. In Sorrow


Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Burdened ("Dear God! there is no sadder fate in life")

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