Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WRONGS OF LOVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, how bitter are the wrongs of love Last Line: For which there is no healing. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
ALAS, how bitter are the wrongs of love! Life has no other sorrow so acute: For love is made of every fine emotion, Of generous impulses, and noble thoughts; It looketh to the stars, and dreams of Heaven; It nestles 'mid the flowers, and sweetens earth. Love is aspiring, yet is humble, too: It doth exalt another o'er itself, With sweet heart-homage, which delights to raise That which it worships; yet is fain to win The idol to its lone and lowly home Of deep affection. 'Tis an utter wreck When such hopes perish. From that moment, life Has in its depths a well of bitterness, For which there is no healing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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