HEART-ROOM, a poem

THE heart has room for gladness,
     None for joyless things and dull;
Such a very little sadness
     Fills it over-full.
So, with boundless space for loving,
     Enmity it deems excess,
Just a little hatred proving
     Too great bitterness.

"Heart-Room" by Florence Earle Coates. Published in Poems (1916) Volume II.