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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ENIGMA, by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no peace with you Last Line: Nor ever any rest! | |||
There is no peace with you, Nor any rest! Your presence is a torture to the brain. Your words are barbed arrows to the breast, And one but greets To wish you sped again. Frustrate you make desire And action vain. There is no peace with you . . . No peace . . . Nor any rest. Yet in your absence Longing springs anew, And hopefulness besets the baffled brain. If only you were you and yet not you!" If you such joy could give as you give pain! Then what an unguent for the burning breast! And for the harassed heart What rapture true! If only you were you and yet not you!" There is no peace with you Nor ever any rest! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEAD FIRES by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET LA VIE C'EST LA VIE by JESSIE REDMOND FAUSET THE BIRTHNIGHT: TO F by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE SCHOOL AND SCHOOLFELLOWS; FLOREAT ETONA by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED THE DEPARTED by JOHN BANISTER TABB EDONI: THE WORSHIP OF COTYS by AESCHYLUS QUATRAIN: HERRICK by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE RIVAL CELESTIAL by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE OLD COUPLE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON SONG TO ONE WHO, WHEN I PRAIS'D MY MISTRESS' BEAUTY, SAID I WAS BLIND by THOMAS CAREW TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. A MIGHTIER THAN MAMMON by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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