Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TWO WOMEN MEET, by LEONORA SPEYER Poet's Biography First Line: They do not care about each other, these two Last Line: She hardly touched the food. Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends | ||||||||
They do not care about each other, these two, They never did; But they were girls together, years ago. -- Years! Years! How many, my dear! -- They look at each other with the furtive appraising eye Of women noticing the changes, Pretending not to. . . . And suddenly they cling, sobbing a little; They kiss. But not each other! The one is holding to her heart a girl's mad dream, Forgotten, And the dream's end, Forgotten, too. And the other reaches wistful lips toward a far feast, And seems to taste the crumbs that fell from that shining table, Where, Careless, singing, She hardly touched the food. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: LEBID by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT HOBOKEN, 1825 by ROBERT STEVENSON COFFIN VISIONS IN VERSE: 4. CONTENT by NATHANIEL COTTON I OFTEN THINK by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS THE FEATHER by FORD MADOX FORD FRIAR-BACON: LOVE-SUPPLANTER by ROBERT GREENE TO A FALSE FRIEND by THOMAS HOOD FRIEND AND FOE by WINIFRED LUCAS A B C'S IN GREEN by LEONORA SPEYER |
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