Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOVE'S CYNICISM, by GRANT HYDE CODE First Line: Wisely you smile at love's sad corollary Last Line: Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
WISELY you smile at love's sad corollary; It is more wise to smile when hearts are broken, Lest real griefsbecome imaginary Breed morbid phantoms. It is best to reckon Past years but as the pages of romance, Past selves as quaint, fantastic characters, Given reality of passion once, Now too remote for retrospective tears. Think then of the white lilies that we drew From shadowed waters of the still lagoon, The well-remembered fragrance, and the few Dark willows drawn across the falling moon As fragments of a story read to while Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile. | 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 |
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