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What One Approves, Another Scorns -- Arthur Guiterman

       
(Poem #1140) What One Approves, Another Scorns
 What one approves,
 another scorns,
 and thus
 his nature each discloses.
 You find the rosebush
 full of thorns,
 I find the
 thornbush full of roses.
-- Arthur Guiterman
The combination of a good epigram and good verse is one I can seldom resist,
and while today's poem is hardly earthshattering in its originality, the
delightful way in which it is worded more than makes up for it. It doesn't
really have a 'punchline' in the way "On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness"
([Poem #24], and yes, Guiterman was way overdue to show up again <g>) does -
but it doesn't suffer for the lack. I'm reminded of bits of Piet Hein, and, to
a lesser extent, Stephen Crane. This definitely goes on my list of poems that
are both memorable and quotable.

martin

Links:
  Thanks to H. Paul Lillebo, whose wonderful poetry site provided not just
  today's poem, but a long-sought online biography of Guiterman:
    http://www.newtrix.com/poems/poetbio_e-l.htm#Guiterman

  Someday, this shall be a complete collection of epigrams on Minstrels :)
    [broken link] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/collections/35.html

martin

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Marlene Diane Brown said...

Can you tell me what book this poem is published in?

On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness by Arthur Guiterman

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