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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 AUGUST FIRST by HAYDEN CARRUTH ETUDES DE PLUSIERS PAYSAGES DE L' AME: 1 by HAYDEN CARRUTH ON A FAIR BEGGAR by PHILIP AYRES THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL by WILLIAM BLAKE SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 105 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI COCK-CROW by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS TALL NETTLES by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS SPIRIT WHOSE WORK IS DONE (WASHINGTON CITY, 1865) by WALT WHITMAN THE SUPPLIANTS: PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE. CHORUS by AESCHYLUS THE AUTHOR'S LAST WORDS TO HIS STUDENTS by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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