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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOLITUDE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, you cannot befriend me, with all your love's tender persistence!
Last Line: Under the spell of our life's innermost mystery, pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery
First Line: Ah, you cannot befriend me, with all your love's tender persistence!
Last Line: Under the spell of our life's innermost mystery, pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Pain; Pity; Suffering; Misery
Ah, you cannot befriend me, with all your love's tender persistence!
In your arms' pitying clasp sole and remote I remain,
Rapt as far from help as the last star's measureless distance,
Under the spell of our life's innermost mystery, Pain.
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