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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ONE WHO'S LEARNED, by ALICE MOSER
First Line: Though some, prophetic, guessed that I would walk
Last Line: And change, however slow, is permanent.
Subject(s): Change
First Line: Though some, prophetic, guessed that I would walk
Last Line: And change, however slow, is permanent.
Subject(s): Change
Though some, prophetic, guessed that I would walk
Alone, as now, with dull, unbuoyant tread,
So furiously his, I shunned their talk
And did not weep, but rather laughed, instead.
"Not gay?" "Not blooming?" "I, whose mouth is kissed
By his? Some other folk, perhaps, may cry!"
Thus youth-in-love will all the world resist
Believing otherwise than love will die.
My lips, now quiet, might be carved of ice
So still are they, forgetting how they burned.
They seldom kiss. No comfort will suffice
Or bring complacency to one who's learned
That love will go, stars crash through firmament,
And change, however slow, is permanent.
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