Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORTY YEARS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography First Line: These forty years! And forty years ago Last Line: Mother, of a longing, of a fear and pain? Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
THESE forty years! And forty years ago You waited for me, day after weary day. Then lived I but in you; now you in me Livea desire, a need, a memory. And wait you now again, in the unapparent And silent or but angel-winged air? Wait you even now for me, to ease you again, Mother, of a longing, of a fear and pain? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN |
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