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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 | |||
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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LIFE OF TOWNS: ANNA TOWN by ANNE CARSON IT JUST SO HAPPENS by JAMES GALVIN TURN OFF THE NEWS by ANSELM HOLLO THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 37 by KENNETH REXROTH IN THE TAXI TO THE MRI by RACHEL HADAS IN MY SON'S ROOM, NOT SLEEPING by RACHEL HADAS ANXIETY'S PROSODY by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS THE ABSINTHE-DRINKER by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS |
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