Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONGING, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not sorry for my soul Last Line: Without the joy it longed to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Mortality; Religion; Theology | ||||||||
I AM not sorry for my soul That it must go unsatisfied, For it can live a thousand times, Eternity is deep and wide. I am not sorry for my soul, But oh, my body that must go Back to a little drift of dust Without the joy it longed to know. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MYSTIC BOUNCE by TERRANCE HAYES MATHEMATICS CONSIDERED AS A VICE by ANTHONY HECHT UNHOLY SONNET 11 by MARK JARMAN SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE COMING OF THE PLAGUE by WELDON KEES A LITHUANIAN ELEGY by ROBERT KELLY |
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