Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FIRST DOUBT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth, love, and rank, and wealth - all these combined Last Line: She sank before the presence of despair! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Unrequited | ||||||||
YOUTH, love, and rank, and wealth -- all these combined, Can these be wretched? Mystery of the mind, Whose happiness is in itself; but still Has not that happiness at its own will. She felt too wretched with the sudden fear -- Had she such lovely rival, and so near? Ay, bitterest of the bitter this worst pain, To know love's offering has been in vain; Rejected, scorn'd, and trampled under foot, Its bloom and leaves destroyed, but not its root. "He loves me not!" -- no other words nor sound An echo in the lady's bosom found: It was a wretchedness too great to bear, She sank before the presence of despair! | 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 CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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