I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown Poem by Delmira Agustini

I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown

Rating: 3.9


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.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Rajendran Muthiah 15 April 2012

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.

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eggman2132 06 March 2019

bad poem very bad is very very poor poem and sucks

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Adrian Max Rodman 16 July 2022

This sounds fake ngl. Like is this satire? /g

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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

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Ratnakar Mandlik 06 March 2019

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.

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Chinedu Dike 12 July 2022

An insightful poem nicely put together with conviction

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Ramesh T A 12 July 2022

The problem seems to schizophrenia, double personality can be corrected by following non-attachment to worldly things! Nice poem to read!

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Femipeadia 11 July 2022

Nice write-up

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Rose Marie Juan-austin 18 June 2021

The intricacies of life. A well expressed poem.

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Ramesh T A 06 March 2020

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!

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Delmira Agustini

Delmira Agustini

Montevideo / Uruguay
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