Featured Poem: A Modest Love by Sir Edward Dyer
Valentine's Day is approaching at the end of this week - if for any reason you're not feeling the love, then it's worth reading this delightful poem by Sir Edward Dyer which - rather charmingly - highlights that there is love in everything if you look closely enough. To get away from the commercialism of the 'holiday' it also leaves us with a heartwarming and true thought at its centre; a sentiment that is worth bearing in mind before you venture to spend your pennies or pounds spoiling your loved one.
A Modest Love
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall,
The fly her spleen, the little sparks their heat;
The slender hairs cast shadows, though but small,
And bees have stings, although they be not great;
Seas have their source, and so have shallow springs;
And love is love, in beggars as in kings.
Where rivers smoothest run, deep are the fords;
The dial stirs, yet none perceives it move;
The firmest faith is in the fewest words;
The turtles cannot sing, and yet they love:
True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak;
They hear and see, and sigh, and then they break.
Sir Edward Dyer
Share
Related Articles
September’s Monthly Stories and Poems
September’s pick of Monthly Stories and Poems are connected by the theme mixed-up feelings and encounters, reminding us that very rarely…
The Storybarn Selects… From The Reader Bookshelf
The Reader Bookshelf 2024 is a carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year,…
August’s Monthly Stories and Poems
Over the summer, The Reader is running our biggest Shared Reading Awareness campaign in years. See our new video, taking…