PASSER-BY, To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one. When the beloved one withdraws itself from your soul Then you have lost your soul. It is written: "I have a friend, But my sorrow has no friend." Hence my long years of solitude at the home of my father, Trying to get myself back, And to turn my sorrow into a supremer self. But there was my father with his sorrows, Sitting under the cedar tree, A picture that sank into my heart at last Bringing infinite repose. Oh, ye souls who have made life Fragrant and white as tube roses From earth's dark soil, Eternal peace! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 3. HER WORDS by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH YARROW VISITED by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE DAUGHTER OF THE BLIND by ANNE M. F. ANNAN WHEN KREISLER PLAYS by FRANCES BARTLETT THE SWAN; TO VICTOR HUGO by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE PSALM 82 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE UNKNOWN WOMAN by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK |