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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FIRELIGHT, by MARGARET RUSH
First Line: Tonight a picture haunts my blazing fire
Last Line: I would not have him as a gift ... Today.
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: Tonight a picture haunts my blazing fire
Last Line: I would not have him as a gift ... Today.
Subject(s): Memory
Tonight a picture haunts my blazing fire ...
A vivid memory of long ago ...
The merry flames, splashing a ruddy glow
Across the polished flooring, dance up higher
And I can see again a burning pyre
Of letters, turning ashes ... feel the woe
And desolation only youth can know
When life has lost its hope and heart's desire.
I knelt, a tearful girl so young, unlearned,
That I despaired of finding love again.
With trembling hands I crushed my dreams and burned
His letters ... watched them flame. I hated men!
... And now I smile to think I felt that way:
I would not have him as a gift ... today.
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