Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PATH OF TEARS: 1. THE SORROW OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you turn your face away? Last Line: Or the thrall of the old desire? Subject(s): Death; Desire; Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age; Dead, The | ||||||||
WHY did you turn your face away? Was it for grief or fear Your strength would fail or your pride grow weak, If you touched my hand, if you heard me speak, After a life-long year? Why did you turn your face away? Was it for love or hate? Or the spell of that wild miraculous hour That hurled our souls with relentless power In the eddying fires of Fate? Turn not your face from me, O Love! Shall Sorrow or Death conspire To set our suffering spirits free From the passionate bondage of Memory Or the thrall of the old desire? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND A CHALLENGE TO FATE by SAROJINI NAIDU |
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