Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LACRIMAE RERUM, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poet Analysis First Line: Rossetti walked his sorrow to a field Last Line: And sorrow, and this cause for sorrow, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery | ||||||||
Rossetti walked his sorrow to a field, Lay in the grass, and watched the wood-spurge flower. The three-cupped wood-spurge: all that earth would yield Rossetti to remember of that hour. He lay with grief, as others too have lain Who must remember strangely other things. Things that still keep the contours of their pain, Whose colors cling longer than sorrow clings. The tears of things that have not any words, Deeper than music, stronger than the sea, And sadder than the flight of homing birds: Remembered things, outlasting memory. The shapes of suffering hold, when you and I And sorrow, and this cause for sorrow, die. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES |
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