Careful Words

trivial (adj.)

While memory holds a seat

In this distracted globe. Remember thee!

Yea, from the table of my memory

I 'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

The trivial round, the common task,

Would furnish all we ought to ask.

John Keble (1792-1866): Morning.

What dire offence from amorous causes springs!

What mighty contests rise from trivial things!

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Rape of the Lock. Canto i. Line 1.