Friday, April 10, 2009

The Best Thing in the World

Written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

What’s the best thing in the World?

June-rose, by may-dew impearled;

Sweet south-wind, that mean’s no rain;

Truth, not cruel to a friend;

Pleasure, not in haste to end;

Beauty, not self-decked and curled

Till its pride is over-plain;

Light, that never makes you wink;

Memory, that gives no pain;

Love, when, so, you’re loved again.

What’s the best thing in the world?

--Something out of it, I think.

 

Submitted by Jeanne McDonald, Eng 102-013