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Count That Day Lost
George Eliot
About George Eliot
George Eliot is the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), a prolific nineteenth century English novelist, poet and journalist. Silas Manner and Mill on the Floss are her most famous works.
In this short lyric poem, she offers moral advice to her readers by urging them to be kind and helpful.
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard.
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went-
Then you may count that day well spent.
But if, through all the livelong day,
You’ve cheered no heart, by yea or nay−
lf, through it all
You’ve nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face−
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost−
Then count that day as worse than lost.
Available Answers
- 1.
What does the speaker want the reader to do at dusk?
- 2.
What will be self-denying deed achieve?
- 3.
How will a kind glance help anyone?
- 4.
Why is yea or nay important?
- 5.
Why will the day be worse than lost?
- 6.
Then you may count that day well spent.
- What does the poet mean by 'day well spent'?
- How will the day be well spent?
- In what way will the well spent day benefit the reader?
3 more answer(s) available.
Comments
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