Living
Regret and Remorse
From Poems of Sentiment (1909)
Living
Regret with streaming eyes doth seem alway
A maiden widowed on her wedding day.
While dark Remorse, with eyes too sad for tears,
A crushed, desponding Magdalene appears.
One, with a hungering heart unsatisfied,
Mourns for imagined joys that were denied.
The other, pierced by recollected sin,
Broods o’er the scars of pleasures that have been.
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MLA
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Regret and Remorse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/637/.
Chicago
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Regret and Remorse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/637/.
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