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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
O, IN A WORLD OF MEN AND WOMEN, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: In my world sorrow is their name
Subject(s): Grief
Last Line: In my world sorrow is their name
Subject(s): Grief
O, in a world of men and women,
Where all things seemed so strange to me,
And speech the common world called human
For me was a vain mimicry,
I thought-O, am I one in sorrow?
Or is the world more quick to hide
Their pain with raiment that they borrow
From pleasure in the house of pride?
O joy of mine, O longed-for stranger,
How I would greet you if you came:
In the world's joys I've been a ranger,
In my world sorrow is their name.
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