It’s Thoughts and Just One Heart
It’s Thoughts and Just One Heart - meaning Summary
Small Pleasures, Intimate Sufficiency
The poem argues that modest inner resources—thoughts, a single devoted heart, memory of sunshine—can supply company and comfort. Physical luxuries (books, pictures, flowers, birds, landscapes) are presented as optional ornaments that the mind can simulate. Together, intimate companionship and imaginative acts produce a near-sufficient sense of joy and even a hint of immortality, though the speaker allows that this contentment is not entirely complete.
Read Complete AnalysesIt’s thoughts and just One Heart And Old Sunshine about Make frugal Ones Content And two or three for Company Upon a Holiday Crowded as Sacrament Books when the Unit Spare the Tenant long eno’ A Picture if it Care Itself a Gallery too rare For needing more Flowers to keep the Eyes from going awkward When it snows A Bird if they prefer Though Winter fire sing clear as Plover To our ear A Landscape not so great To suffocate the Eye A Hill perhaps Perhaps the profile of a Mill Turned by the Wind Tho’ such are luxuries It’s thoughts and just two Heart And Heaven about At least a Counterfeit We would not have Correct And Immortality can be almost Not quite Content
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