Nature

Wisdom and a Mother

by John Freeman 1880–1929

From Poems New and Old (1920)

Nature

Why, mourner, do you mourn, nor see
The heavenly Earth's felicity?

I mourn for him, my Dearest, lost,
Who lived a frail life at my cost.

A grief like yours how many have known!

Were that a balm to ease my own!
Or rather might I not accuse
The Hand that does not even choose,
But, taking blindly, took my best,
And as indifferently takes the rest ...
Like mine? Is there denied to me
Even Sorrow's singularity?

MLA

Freeman, John. “Wisdom and a Mother.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/freeman/161/.

Chicago

Freeman, John. “Wisdom and a Mother.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/freeman/161/.

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