Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Small Miseries
CHAPTER II.
PUBLISHING.
Life's smallest miseries are, perhaps, its worst:
Great sufferings have great strength: there is a pride
In the bold energy that braves the worst,
And bears proud in the bearing; but the heart
Consumes with those small sorrows, and small shames,
Which crave, yet cannot ask for sympathy.
They blush that they exist, and yet how keen
The pang that they inflict!
Blanchard’s title is:
SMALL MISERIES