Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904. | | | | VI. Consolation | | Peace | | Anonymous |
| | | THERE is the peace that cometh after sorrow, | |
| Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled; | |
| A peace that looketh not upon to-morrow, | |
| But calmly on a tempest that is stilled. | |
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| A peace which lives not now in joy’s excesses, | 5 |
| Nor in the happy life of love secure, | |
| But in the unerring strength the heart possesses, | |
| Of conflicts won, while learning to endure. | |
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| A peace there is, in sacrifice secluded, | |
| A life subdued, from will and passion free; | 10 |
| ’T is not the peace that over Eden brooded, | |
| But that which triumphed in Gethsemane. | | | | |
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