Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PSYCHOLOGY FIVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL


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PSYCHOLOGY FIVE, by                    
First Line: No more of despair you poets
Last Line: "only means sanitation and health."
Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


"Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some
divine despair."
Alfred Tennyson.

No more of despair you poets;
We are farther than that today.
Your tears do but flush the nerve-centers
And wash the debris away.

When you're hurt in the heart as you call it,
The vessels engorge with blood,
And the nerves make a poison deposit
Which is carried away by the flood

Of tears, which lovers and poets
Have wrought into idyls of song;
But these tears as peripheral action
To Psychology Five belong.

And your tears no longer are "idle";
They're a part of economy's wealth;
"This stock-theme of lyrics," says science,
"Only means sanitation and health."





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