Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HEART RECALCITRANT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poet's Biography First Line: Does the heart grieve on Last Line: Across its own oblivion? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
Does the heart grieve on, After its grief is gone Like a slow ship moving Across its own oblivion? Heart! Heart! Do you not know That I have conquered pain, Have parted from my woe? That my proud feet have found their path again, After the pathless heightslong after And that my hands have learned to bless Their overflowing emptiness, My lips grown reconciled to laughter? O laggard of dead roads, O heart that will not heal nor break Nor yet forget! Tell me, whose tears are these That greet me as I wake? Why is my pillow wet? Red Rebel, is it you That lifted this wild dew Like banners from my arid dreams That roused this ember From exiled ashes, Calling me to remember? Speak, is it you that wept Upon my pillow while I slept? Does the heart then grieve on, After its grief is gone, A treasure-ship that journeys Across its own oblivion? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A B C'S IN GREEN by LEONORA SPEYER |
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