~Wolf
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (18:53)
seed
Did you know she wrote poetry?
~terry
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (19:26)
#1
Can you post a sample, wolfmiestress?
~Wolf
Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (23:05)
#2
love to, but we gotta ask riette. apparantly she knows a few of them. (i was
one of the few who didn't know Emily had written poems)
~riette
Tue, Jul 7, 1998 (05:43)
#3
Thank you, Wolf. Yes, Emily wrote fantastic poetry - well, in my opinion anyway, and I don't know that much poetry at all.
But, though far from her best, here's one of my favourites - see if you like it too.
It's called, 'Hope', and it moves me every time I read it:
Hope was but a timid friend;
She sat without the grated den,
Watching how my fate would tend,
Even as selfish-hearted men.
She was cruel in her fear;
Through the bars, one dreary day,
I looked out to see her there,
And she turned her face away!
Like a false guard, false watch keeping,
Still in strife, she whispered peace;
She would sing while I was weeping;
If I listened, she would cease.
False she was, and unrelenting;
When my last joys strewed the ground;
Even Sorrow saw, repenting,
Those sad relics scattered round;
Hope, whose whisper would have given
Balm to all my frenzied pain,
Stretched her wings, and soared to heaven,
Went, and ne'er returned again!