Living
Sit Quiet at Your Hearthstones While Ye May
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Sit quiet at your hearthstones while ye may;
Look to your arms; place them within your reach;
Keep dry the powder; throw none on the grate
In idle sport; it might blow up both roof
And door: and then the Bear that growls bursts in.
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “Sit Quiet at Your Hearthstones While Ye May.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/651/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “Sit Quiet at Your Hearthstones While Ye May.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/651/.
Read this poem with the Codex →