I’m the Little Heart’s Ease
poem 176
I’m the Little Heart’s Ease - meaning Summary
Cheerful Inner Constancy
The poem adopts the voice of the "little Heart’s Ease," a small, cheerful speaker who insists on staying content despite external delays or timid others. It expresses resolute optimism and loyalty to simple, old-fashioned pleasures. The speaker refuses to alter its nature because of obstacles or changing fashions, invoking birds, flowers, and heaven’s unchanging blue as reasons to remain steadfast and unashamedly constant.
Read Complete AnalysesI’m the little Heart’s Ease! I don’t care for pouting skies! If the Butterfly delay Can I, therefore, stay away? If the Coward Bumble Bee In his chimney corner stay, I, must resoluter be! Who’ll apologize for me? Dear, Old fashioned, little flower! Eden is old fashioned, too! Birds are antiquated fellows! Heaven does not change her blue. Nor will I, the little Heart’s Ease Ever be induced to do!
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