To a Friend by Amy Lowell

5. August 2005, 9:27 Uhramy lowellrinabeana

Amy Lowell just knows her stuff!

To a Friend
By Amy Lowell

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!

2 comments:

  1. Philip, 12. January 2008, 11:48

    I love this one and don’t think I’ve read it before - as far as I remember it’s not in the selection edited by Honor Moore that is my basic Lowell book. Thanks!

     
  2. rinabeana, 12. January 2008, 12:51

    My pleasure! I picked up Amy Lowell’s complete poems at Half Price Books, but I haven’t read all her poems as of yet.

     

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