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.
Once chill and cold! ! ! ! But to hold on to the truth. Thanks for sharing this poem with us.
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!
I find my pain beginning all over once again///greatly written the poem; outstanding the title -I Live, I Die, I Burn, I Drown" where hidden the all mystery of life and recycling!
Then when I feel my joys certain And my hour of greatest delight arrived I find my pain beginning all over once again. a very fine poem. tony
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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.