Love And Grief Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Love And Grief

Rating: 3.2


Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day,
I locked young Love and threw the key away.
Grief, wandering widely, found the key,
And hastened with it, straightway, back to me,
With Love beside him. He unlocked the door
And bade Love enter with him there and stay.
And so the twain abide for evermore.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Mary Bradley 02 December 2012

One word is not enough to describe the reaction. As the ocean so the poem!

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Grief and love are, perhaps, inseparable twin. Great.

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Curtis Johnson 18 October 2015

Love and grief. perhaps they cannot live apart. Perhaps they are live batteries who only function with positive and negative charges. Love sometimes become acquainted with grief; and love is always the one who rescues.

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Bernard Snyder 01 July 2015

I've witnessed this so many times. Great poem!

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G. Akanji Olaniyi 30 June 2015

Splendid and precise! Grief is a wicked intruder! ! !

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Joseph Poewhit 30 June 2015

love is like the wind

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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