Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME TO ME, by ANONYMOUS


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TIME TO ME, by                    
First Line: Time to me this truth hath taught
Last Line: Than from want of feeling
Subject(s): Time


TIME to me this truth hath taught,
'T is a truth that's worth revealing:
More offend from want of thought
Than from want of feeling.

If advice we would convey,
There's a time we should convey it;
If we've but a word to say,
There's a time in which to say it.

Many a beauteous flower decays,
Though we tend it e'er so much;
Something secret on it preys,
Which no human aid can touch.

So in many a loving breast
Lies some canker-grief concealed,
That, if touched, is more oppressed,
Left unto itself -- is healed!

Oft, unknowingly, the tongue
Touches on a chord so aching
That a word or accent wrong
Pains the heart almost to breaking.

Many a tear of wounded pride,
Many a fault of human blindness,
Has been soothed or turned aside
By a quiet voice of kindness.

Time to me this truth hath taught,
'T is a truth that's worth revealing:
More offend from want of thought
Than from want of feeling.





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