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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEURASTENIA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Recitation First Line: I watch the happier people of the house Last Line: How black it is, how fast it is, below? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Variant Title(s): In Affliction Subject(s): Weariness; Fatigue | |||
I WATCH the happier people of the house Come in and out, and talk, and go their ways; I sit and gaze at them; I cannot rouse My heavy mind to share their busy days. I watch them glide, like skaters on a stream, Across the brilliant surface of the world. But I am underneath: they do not dream How deep below the eddying flood is whirl'd. They cannot come to me, nor I to them; But, if a mightier arm could reach and save, Should I forget the tide I had to stem? Should I, like these, ignore the abysmal wave? Yes! in the radiant air how could I know How black it is, how fast it is, below? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VALUE IN MOUNTAINS: 10 by KENNETH REXROTH IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 4 by CESAR VALLEJO BLACK SHEEP by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TIRED TIM by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE WEARINESS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MICHAEL ANGELO by AUGUSTE BARBIER THE MELTING POT by BERTON BRALEY AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON |
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