Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOON-WROUGHT TIDES, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING


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MOON-WROUGHT TIDES, by                    
First Line: How often have I prayed that I might cease
Last Line: I almost long to live and love again.
Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


How often have I prayed that I might cease
To feel the stifling, burning pain of love,
But now, the slow approaching, frozen peace
Of age brings sorrow when I think thereof.
Lately, I won to such indifference
As I had never quite attained before;
A stupor grew, a dull, relaxing sense
Of futile rowing toward some receding shore;
Then, looking back, I saw how dear the woe
That I had hated while it scarred my breast;
"Forsan haec olim," Dido even so
Had welcomed sea-worn Trojans to their rest.
So thin, in retrospect, the fading pain
I almost long to live and love again.





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