Enjoying Life
Richard Newton Sherrer 1951 (Easton)
Go and gladly eat your bread,
Drink wine with a merry heart;
God approves what you are fed,
That your lips and tongue impart.
Let your clothes be always white,
And your head oil will not lack;
Always doing what is right,
Because God watches your back.
With whom you love enjoy life,
All the days never in vain;
When you are loving your wife,
Enjoyed living will sustain.
God gave you under the sun,
A time that you must toil;
Satisfaction after done,
When you have tilled the soil.
Of what your hand finds to do,
Do it with all of your might;
Motivated to pursue,
Helps you to sleep well at night.
For there are no thoughts or wisdom,
Nor any knowledge or deed;
For entering God’s Kingdom,
That lets the devil succeed.
Copyright © 2024 Richard Newton Sherrer
About this poem
Enjoy Life with the One You Love Ecclesiastes 9:7–10
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Written on March 20, 2024
Submitted by richardnsherrer on March 19, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 767 |
Words | 171 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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