The+Weakest+Thing

The Weakest Thing By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Which is the weakest thing of all

Mine heart can ponder?

**The sun, a little cloud can pall**

**With darkness yonder?** (Metaphor)

The cloud, a little wind can move

**Where'er it listeth?** (Personification)

The wind, **a little leaf above**,

Though sere, **resisteth**? (Personification)

What time that yellow leaf was green,

My **days were gladder;** (Personification)

But now, whatever Spring may mean,

I must grow sadder.

Ah me! **a leaf with sighs** (Personification) can wring

My lips asunder -

Then is mine heart the weakest thing

Itself can ponder.

Yet, Heart, when sun and cloud are pined

And drop together,

And at a blast, which is not wind,

The forests wither,

Thou, from the darkening deathly curse

To glory breakest, -

The Strongest of the universe

Guarding the weakest!