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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REGRET, by JUANITA DE LONG
First Line: If you had been demeter, doso named
Last Line: And only glimpse, far up, the road I need.
Subject(s): Regret
First Line: If you had been demeter, doso named
Last Line: And only glimpse, far up, the road I need.
Subject(s): Regret
If you had been Demeter, Doso named
In that fragrant country where she, grieving, cast
Her lot with mortals, a little while the vast
Wild anger of her heart entrapped and tamed
By earth-made tasks; and I, Demophoon, famed
That even for an hour she held him fast --
You could not more have striven to the last
To give me life unsullied and unlamed.
But when you held me in the potent fire,
I felt it scorch and could not bear the smart;
And not contented with ambrosial mead,
Hungering for food, I satisfied desire.
Now I must walk the low road through the mart
And only glimpse, far up, the road I need.
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