Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by AUGUST PLATEN Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, he whose pain means life, whose life means Last Line: He knows me quite, and feels what I must feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von | ||||||||
Oh, he whose pain means life, whose life means pain May feel again what I have felt before; Who has beheld his bliss above him soar And, when he sought it, fly away again; Who in a labyrinth has tried in vain, When he has lost his way, to find a door, Whom love has singled out for nothing more Than with despondency his soul to bane; Who begs cach lightning for a deadly stroke, Each stream to drown the heart that cannot heal From all the cruel stabs by which it broke, Who does begrudge the dead their beds like steel Where they are safe from love's beguiling yoke-- He knows me quite, and feels what I must feel. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GRAVE OF ALARIC by AUGUST PLATEN THE PASSAGE OF THE POLES BY NIGHT NEAR CRACOW by AUGUST PLATEN THE PILGRIM OF ST. JUST'S by AUGUST PLATEN TWO SONNETS: 2 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON SONNET: SILENCE by THOMAS HOOD UNMANIFEST DESTINY by RICHARD HOVEY THE MAN IN THE MOON by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY AUTUMN: A DIRGE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY |
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