Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: Sad one, must you weep alway? Last Line: "pray you, let it be!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection | ||||||||
"SAD one, must you weep alway? Youth's ill wedded with despair; Ringless hand and robe of grey Mock the charms which they declare." Sad and sweetly answered she, "What are comely robes to me? I would wear a grass green dress, Dew pearls for my gemsno less Now can comfort me." "Sweet, the shining of your hair (All forgotten and undone) Squanders 'neath the veil you wear Gold whose loss bereaves the sun." Very sad and low said she, "What is shining hair to me? When from out the rain-wet mold Kingcups borrow of its gold Sweet and sweet 'twill be." "Love, O Love! your hand is chill As a snowflake lost in spring, Wild it fluttersthen lies still As a bird with prisoned wing!" Sad and patient answered she, "As a bird I would be free; As the spring I would find birth In the sweet, forgetful earth Pray you, let it be!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BALLAD OF THE LADIES OF OLDEN TIMES by FRANCOIS VILLON THE FOUR HUMOURS by RAFAEL CAMPO DEJECTION by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES THE DEATH OF THE FLOWERS by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT DEJECTION: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE MELANCHOLIA by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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