Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EARTH LEADS TO HEAVEN, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a weary and a wretched life Last Line: And we can but remember and regret. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Future Life; Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life | ||||||||
THIS is a weary and a wretched life, With nothing to redeem it but the heart. Affection, earth's great purifier, stirs Our embers into flame, and that ascends. All finer natures walk this bitter world But for a while, then Heaven asks its own, And we can but remember and regret. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IKON: THE HARROWING OF HELL by DENISE LEVERTOV LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS 3 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE AFTERLIFE: LETTER TO STEPHEN DOBYNS: 2 by HAYDEN CARRUTH WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE by BILLY COLLINS CALYPSO WATCHING THE OCEAN by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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