I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown Poem by Delmira Agustini
I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown
I live, I die, I burn, I drown
I endure at once chill and cold
Life is at once too soft and too hard
I have sore troubles mingled with joys
Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry
And in pleasure many a grief endure
My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged
All at once I dry up and grow green
Thus I suffer love's inconstancies
And when I think the pain is most intense
Without thinking, it is gone again.
Then when I feel my joys certain
And my hour of greatest delight arrived
I find my pain beginning all over once again.
Then when I feel my joys certain And my hour of greatest delight arrived I find my pain beginning all over once again. Marvelous writing
A true picture of contradictions in life with alternate incoming of joy and grief and taking the life in it's strides, being the only solution. A great life song.
The problem seems to schizophrenia, double personality can be corrected by following non-attachment to worldly things! Nice poem to read!
Due to oxymoronic nature of life, it seems romantic too due to alternate change of joy sorrow without one in steady state! Nice composition to read about the truth in life!
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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6/15/2025 12:16:20 PM # 1.0.0
Happiness and grief, delight and pain, love's inconstancies the poet has experienced in life. Peace be to her soul and her dreaming upward looks.