Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FIAT JUSTITIA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, all is ended now, for I have weighed thee Last Line: Thy fitful love by the strong pain of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
YES, all is ended now, for I have weighed thee, -- Weighed the light love that has been held so dear, -- Weighed word and look and smile, that have betrayed thee, The careless grace that was not worth a tear. Holding these scales, I marvel at the anguish For thing so slight that long my heart has torn, -- For God's great sun the prisoner's eyes might languish. Not for a torch by some chance passer borne. I do not blame thee for thy heedless playing On the strong chords whose answer was so full, -- Do children care, through daisied meadows straying, What hap befalls the blossoms that they pull? Go on, gay trifler! Take thy childish pleasure: On thee, for thee, may summer always shine: Too stern were Justice, should she seek to measure Thy fitful love by the strong pain of mine. | 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 A PAINTED FAN by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON |
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