Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE AND I, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life and I are lovers, straying Last Line: And plight troth with death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Flowers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed | ||||||||
Life and I are lovers, straying Arm in arm along: Often like two children Maying, Full of mirth and song. Life plucks all the blooming hours Growing by the way; Binds them on my brow like flowers; Calls me Queen of May. Then again, in rainy weather, We sit vis-a-vis, Planning work we'll do together In the years to be. Sometimes Life denies me blisses, And I frown or pout; But we make it up with kisses Ere the day is out. Woman-like, I sometimes grieve him, Try his trust and faith, Saying I shall one day leave him For his rival Death. Then he always grows more zealous, Tender, and more true; Loves the more for being jealous, As all lovers do. Though I swear by stars above him, And by worlds beyond, That I love him -- love him -- love him; Though my heart is fond; Though he gives me, doth my lover, Kisses with each breath -- I shall one day throw him over, And plight troth with Death. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...UNHOLY SONNET 4 by MARK JARMAN QUIA ABSURDUM by ROBINSON JEFFERS GOING TO THE HORSE FLATS by ROBINSON JEFFERS SONNET TO FORTUNE by LUCY AIKEN JONATHAN EDWARDS IN WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS by ROBERT LOWELL |
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