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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN ENIGMA, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poet's Biography
First Line: To have not, is to long for with desire
Last Line: What, saving death, hath any soul of gain?
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Enigmas; Oddities
First Line: To have not, is to long for with desire
Last Line: What, saving death, hath any soul of gain?
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Enigmas; Oddities
To have not, is to long for with desire.
To have, is but to lose.
To lose, is to remember and expire.
How may one rightly choose?
Between a want, a loss, a lifelong pain,
What, saving death, hath any soul of gain?
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