Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POEM, by GORDON C. GREELEY First Line: You say that you're afraid of love Last Line: A brief regret that love passed by. Subject(s): Fear; Love | ||||||||
You say that you're afraid of love. But that's the plan love draws: She makes you fear -- makes all your soul Be tortured in a fruitless cause. You meet, as we have met tonight, Perhaps on some deserted shore. You part, as we shall part one day, To seek a soothing balm once more. The balm is love, at work a-new: Another face, another clime; New flames, new hopes, new hearts to sere; Another life, another time. And I shall think of you, and you Of me, with passing thought. We'll sigh, Amid the pangs of rapture new, A brief regret that love passed by. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD VOICES OF THE AIR by KATHERINE MANSFIELD |
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