Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WE WHO HAVE LOVED, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: We who have loved, alas! May not be friends, Last Line: Love must be nothing if not all in all! Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
We who have loved, alas! may not be friends, Too faint, or yet too fierce the stifled fire, -- A random spark -- and lo! our dead desire Leaps into flame, as though to make amends For chill, blank days, and with strange fury rends The dying embers of Love's funeral pyre. Electric, charged anew, the living wire A burning message through our torpor sends. Could we but pledge with loyal hearts and eyes A friendship worthy of the fair, full past, Now mutilate, and lost beyond recall, Then might a Phoenix from its ashes rise Fit for a soul flight; but we find, aghast, Love must be nothing if not all in all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM A MOTOR IN MAY by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON |
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