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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLAME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poet's Biography
First Line: You blame yourself
Last Line: Is it the sun's fault that we cannot bear his rays?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature
First Line: You blame yourself
Last Line: Is it the sun's fault that we cannot bear his rays?
Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature
YOU blame yourself:
You writhe with remorse because you make trouble for your dear ones:
And the love you give them seems but the mother of tears and sighs.
But are you to blame?
Or is it the human predicament?
You are unhappy yourself: who caused it?
Do you not know it is hard for people to live together?
The sun in summer by merely swimming through the skies
Sends down a scorching heat:
Shall the sun therefore go weeping through the heavens,
Remorseful and miserable?
Is it the sun's fault that we cannot bear his rays?
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