Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER ALL SUFFERING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poet's Biography First Line: After all suffering, after all weariness and denial Last Line: I pass all doors, and am where I would be. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
AFTER all suffering, after all weariness and denial The heart almost stopped, food ceasing to nourish, grief making the tongue dry, All pleasure in life ceasing, unable to rouse interest in any object or pursuit, But loveand that gone far away! After all, Nearer to thy heart, O humanity, By this of suffering we come. I know that thou canst not deny me: I know that each pain is a door by which I approach one degree nearer to thee. What sorrow is there but I have shared it? What grief but it has removed an obstruction between me and some one else? Look in my face and see. You cannot bar me now. I pass all doors, and am where I would be. | 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 AS A MOULD FOR SOME FAIR FORM by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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