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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOUBTS, by RUPERT BROOKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she sleeps, her soul, I know Last Line: Why is fragrance in the hair? Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings | |||
When she sleeps, her soul, I know, Goes a wanderer on the air, Wings where I may never go, Leaves her lying, still and fair, Waiting, empty, laid aside, Like a dress upon a chair. . . . This I know, and yet I know Doubts that will not be denied. For if the soul be not in place, What has laid trouble in her face? And, sits there nothing ware and wise Behind the curtains of her eyes, What is it, in the self's eclipse, Shadows, soft and passingly, About the corners of her lips, The smile that is essential she? And if the spirit be not there, Why is fragrance in the hair? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DON JUAN'S SONG by ISAAC ROSENBERG HEART'S FIRST WORD (2) by ISAAC ROSENBERG IN PICCADILLY by ISAAC ROSENBERG IN THE UNDERWORLD by ISAAC ROSENBERG NIGHT AND DAY: 1. IN THE WORKSHOP by ISAAC ROSENBERG KILLED IN ACTION by ISAAC ROSENBERG LOVE AND LUST by ISAAC ROSENBERG MIDSUMMER FROST (1) by ISAAC ROSENBERG 1914: 1. PEACE by RUPERT BROOKE |
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