Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMEDY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They parted, with clasps of hands Last Line: And once he had known her tears! Subject(s): Time; Change | ||||||||
THEY parted, with clasps of hand, And kisses, and burning tears. They met, in a foreign land, After some twenty years: Met as acquaintances meet, Smilingly, tranquil-eyed -- Not even the least little beat Of the heart, upon either side! They chatted of this and that, The nothings that make up life; She in a Gainsborough hat, And he in black for his wife. Ah, what a comedy this! Neither was hurt, it appears: Yet once she had leaned to his kiss, And once he had known her tears! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO WOMEN: OR A CCONVERSATION WITH SAHARA NILE by E. ETHELBERT MILLER THE SPACIOUS FIRMAMENT by JOHN ASHBERY WHEN THE WEATHER CHANGES TO WARM, THE BOYS DRIVE SHIRTLESS by MARY JO BANG AN ELEGY FOR THE PAST by MARVIN BELL TODAY'S NOT OPPOSITE DAY by CHARLES BERNSTEIN WHEN I WAS TWENTY-SIX by ROBERT BLY THE CHANGED WOMAN by LOUISE BOGAN SO IT'S TODAY by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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