Small Miseries
Letitia Elizabeth Landon 1802 (Chelsea) – 1838 (Cape Coast)
Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst :
Great sufferings have great strength : there is a pride
In the bold energy that braves the worst,
And bears proud in the bearing ; but the heart
Consumes with those small sorrows, and small shames,
Which crave, yet cannot ask for sympathy.
They blush that they exist, and yet how keen
The pang that they inflict !
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Submitted by Madeleine Quinn on November 25, 2016
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 364 |
Words | 62 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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