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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RETROSPECTION, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: After all
Last Line: For I can never know regret.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: After all
Last Line: For I can never know regret.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Memory
After all—
mine is the joy
Which naught can lessen or destroy.
For love has led my flying feet
Where immortelles are springing sweet,
And everlasting skies of gold
Are memories, when earth is cold
And though our future paths should lie
Estranged, as star-ways, through the sky,
I shall not look reproof, nor find
Within this pass a charge unkind,
And lightly sorrow shall be met
For I can never know regret.
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