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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NERVES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The modern malady of love is nerves
Last Line: Of heaven, and, waking in the darkness, screams.
Subject(s): Anxiety
First Line: The modern malady of love is nerves
Last Line: Of heaven, and, waking in the darkness, screams.
Subject(s): Anxiety
The modern malady of love is nerves.
Love, once a simple madness, now observes
The stages of his passionate disease,
And is twice sorrowful because he sees,
Inch by inch entering, the fatal knife.
O health of simple minds, give me your life,
And let me, for one midnight, cease to hear
The clock for ever ticking in my ear,
The clock that tells the minutes in my brain.
It is not love, nor love's despair, this pain
That shoots a witless, keener pang across
The simple agony of love and loss.
Nerves, nerves! O folly of a child who dreams
Of heaven, and, waking in the darkness, screams.
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