Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: Measures of oil for others Last Line: Death, will be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery | ||||||||
MEASURES of oil for others, Oil and red wine, Lips laugh and drink, but never Are the lips mine. Worlds at the feet of others, Power gods have known, Hearts for the favoured round me Mine beats, alone. Fame offering to others Chaplets of bays, I with no crown of laurels, Only grey days. Sweet human love for others, Deep as the sea, God-sent unto my neighbour But not to me. Sometime I'll wrest from others More than all this, I shall demand from Heaven Far sweeter bliss. What profit then to others, Laughter and wine? I'll have what most they covet Death, will be mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON |
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