"Engima" by Leonora Speyer

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend October 15, 2017   Enigma   Leonora Speyer

It would be easy to forgive, If I could but remember; If I could hear, lost love of mine, The music of your cruelties, Shaking to sound the silent skies, Could voice with them their song divine, Red with pain's leaping ember: It would be easy to forgive, If I could but remember.   It would be easy to forget, If I could find lost Sorrow; If I could kiss her plaintive face, And break with her her bitter bread, Could share again her woeful bed, And know with tears her pale embrace. Make yesterday, to-morrow: It would be easy to forget, If I could find lost Sorrow.            This poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   "Enigma" was published in A Canopic Jar (E. P. Dutton & Company, 1921).   Leonora Speyer was born in Washington, D.C., in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for her poetry collection Fiddler's Farewell (Knopf, 1926). Speyer died in 1956.   Poetry by Speyer    A Canopic Jar (Forgotten Books, 2017) "[In Colorado, In Oregon, upon]" by Joshua Beckman "The Weighing" by Jane Hirshfield "The Pain" by Laura Kasischke Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! 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