Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LA VIE C'EST LA VIE, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On summer afternoons I sit Last Line: I wish that I were dead. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited | ||||||||
On summer afternoons I sit Quiescent by you in the park, And idly watch the sunbeams gild And tint the ash-trees' bark. Or else I watch the squirrels frisk And chaffer in the grassy lane; And all the while I mark your voice Breaking with love and pain. I know a woman who would give Her chance of heaven to take my place; To see the love-light in your eyes, The love-glow on your face! And there's a man whose lightest word Can set my chilly blood afire; Fulfillment of his least behest Defines my life's desire. But he will none of me. Nor I Of you. Nor you of her. 'Tis said The world is full of jests like these. -- I wish that I were dead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON TUTTO E SCIOLTO by JAMES JOYCE APPULDURCOMBE PARK by AMY LOWELL TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON by GLYN MAXWELL ELEGY FOR AN ENEMY by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ESSAY ON WHAT I THINK ABOUT MOST by ANNE CARSON CHRISTMAS EVE IN FRANCE by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET |
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