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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 HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 7 by EZRA POUND SOME EYES CONDEMN by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS TO HIMSELF; AN ODE by ANACREON ODE TO THE PAST by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE ELDER'S WARNING; A LAY OF THE CONVOCATION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN MEAPLE LEAVES BE YOLLOW by WILLIAM BARNES KING EDWARD THE THIRD by WILLIAM BLAKE AN OCEAN GREYHOUND by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE |
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