Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN TIME OF GRIEF, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone Last Line: After a fall of rain. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
DARK, thinned, beside the wall of stone, The box dripped in the air; Its odor through my house was blown Into the chamber there. Remote and yet distinct the scent, The sole thing of the kind, As though one spoke a word half meant That left a sting behind. I knew not Grief would go from me, And naught of it be plain, Except how keen the box can be After a fall of rain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE |
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