To A Friend Poem by Amy Lowell

To A Friend

Rating: 2.8


I ask but one thing of you, only one,
That always you will be my dream of you;
That never shall I wake to find untrue
All this I have believed and rested on,
Forever vanished, like a vision gone
Out into the night. Alas, how few
There are who strike in us a chord we knew
Existed, but so seldom heard its tone
We tremble at the half-forgotten sound.
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in beauty through all wrongs.
O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Chinedum Johnson 29 February 2024

Ended with a bang! .. the search lingers

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Stephanie 11 August 2019

For you

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whitney 30 August 2018

this is my favorite poem of yours! ;)

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Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell

Boston, Massachusetts
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