Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SONNET, by GLADYS F. GOODFELLOW


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A SONNET, by                    
First Line: I sometimes wonder what my life would be
Last Line: Whose heart has known one day of ecstasy?
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)


I sometimes wonder what my life would be
If I had never loved you, what the cost
Of loving you has been, will be to me
When sight of you and sound of you is lost.
For not again will there be quiet content,
Knowing whatever comes, the best is gone;
Always there will be memories that dent
The peace of night before the break of dawn.
Each day will be a husk of what could be
If you were there -- a feast with only crumbs,
Each dawn reveal a drear eternity,
For without love tomorrow never comes.

Would peace, contentment be a boon to me
Whose heart has known one day of ecstasy?





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