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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MAN BY HIMSELF, by ROBERT NATHAN
First Line: Because my grief is quiet and apart
Last Line: Certain and unbefriended and alone.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness
First Line: Because my grief is quiet and apart
Last Line: Certain and unbefriended and alone.
Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness
Because my grief is quiet and apart,
Think not for such a reason it is less.
True sorrow makes a silence in the heart;
Joy has its friends, but grief its loneliness.
The wound that tears too readily confess,
Can mended be by fortune or by art,
But there are woes no medicine can dress,
As there are wounds that from the spirit start.
So do not wonder that I do not weep,
Or say my anguish is too little shown;
There is a quiet here, there is a sleep,
There is a peace that I have made my own.
Man by himself goes down into the deep,
Certain and unbefriended and alone.
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