Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: HELOISE. 2. NUN, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poet's Biography First Line: This is the doom I must henceforth fulfill Last Line: Joy comes with morn -- that joy whose name is death. Subject(s): Death; Heloise (1098-1164); Nuns; Dead, The; Eloise; Eloisa | ||||||||
THIS is the doom I must henceforth fulfil: To hide my heart through days, and months, and years; To look in anxious eyes, and lull their fears; To lose all hope, and strive with joyless will; To sing and pray, scarce knowing good from ill; To hear stale converse, as an idiot hears; To tread the cloistered courts with burning tears, Forced backward to their fount, yet rising still. Nay, there is comfort! E'en the sick may smile, Knowing for pain a swift and gentle cure; I can be patient, and can wait awhile, Nor curse the heedless heavens with moaning breath: Though for a night my weeping may endure, Joy comes with morn -- that joy whose name is Death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: HELOISE. 1. THE BRIDE by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN SONNET: HELOISE. 3. ABBESS by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN A LETTER by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN A MODERN APOSTLE by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN BOOKS by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN CHANGED by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN CHRIST, THE NAZARENE by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN DAY-DREAMS by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN DEDICATION TO J.C. AND CAROLINE WOODHILL by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: NATURAL SELECTION by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SCIENTIFIC WOOING by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SOLOMON REDIVIVUS, 1886 by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN |
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