(24 January 1862 – 11 August 1937 / New York City / United States)

poet Edith Wharton

Poems of Edith Wharton

1. A Failure 4/20/2010
2. A Grave 4/20/2010
3. A Hunting Song 4/20/2010
4. A Meeting 4/20/2010
5. A Torchbearer 4/20/2010
6. Aeropagus 4/20/2010
7. All Saints 4/20/2010
8. All Souls 4/20/2010
9. An Autumn Sunset 4/20/2010
10. Artemis To Actaeon 4/20/2010
11. Battle Sleep 4/20/2010
12. Belgium 4/20/2010
13. Botticelli's Madonna in the Louvre 4/20/2010
14. Chartres 1/13/2003
15. Euryalus 4/20/2010
16. Experience 4/20/2010
17. Grief 4/20/2010
18. Happiness 4/20/2010
19. Jade 4/20/2010
20. La Vierge Au Donateur 4/20/2010

A Failure

(She Speaks.)


I MEANT to be so strong and true!
The world may smile and question, When?
But what I might have been to you
I cannot be to other men.
Just one in twenty to the rest,
And all in all to you alone, -

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