Friendship After Love by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 4, 2014   Friendship After Love   Ella Wheeler Wilcox

After the fierce midsummer all ablaze Has burned itself to ashes, and expires In the intensity of its own fires, There come the mellow, mild, St. Martin days Crowned with the calm of peace, but sad with haze. So after Love has led us, till he tires Of his own throes, and torments, and desires, Comes large-eyed friendship: with a restful gaze, He beckons us to follow, and across Cool verdant vales we wander free from care. Is it a touch of frost lies in the air? Why are we haunted with a sense of loss? We do not wish the pain back, or the heat; And yet, and yet, these days are incomplete.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “Friendship After Love” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox appeared in Wilcox’s most famous collection, Poems of Passion (1883).   Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born in Johnstown, Wisconsin, in 1850. A popular poet, Wilcox often wrote in plain, rhyming verse. She wrote many books of poetry including, A Woman of the World (1904) and Poems of Experience (1910), before her death in 1919. Poetry by Wilcox   Poems of Passion and Pleasure (Forgotten Books, 2012) "El Beso" by Angelina Weld Grimké "somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond" by E. E. Cummings "On the Road to the Sea" by Charlotte Mew Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit poets.org   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038