Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 36, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were together, and I longed to tell Last Line: On your white bosom too had left a stain. Subject(s): Love – Unrequited | ||||||||
We were together, and I longed to tell How drop by silent drop my bosom bled. I took some verses full of you, and read, Waiting for God to work some miracle. They told how love had plunged in burning hell One half my soul, while the other half had fled Upon love's wings to heaven; and you said: "I like the verses; they are written well." If I had knelt confessing "It is you, You are my torment and my rapture too," I should have seen you rise in flushed disdain: "For shame to say so, be it false or true!" And the sharp sword that ran me through and through, On your white bosom too had left a stain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LA PALMA by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA BEAUTY SHOPPE by MARILYN NELSON EPISTLE TO A FRIEND, IN ANSWER TO SOME LINES TO BE CHEERFUL by GEORGE GORDON BYRON A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 25 by THOMAS CAMPION A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 33 by THOMAS CAMPION A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 37 by THOMAS CAMPION |
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