Some Day, some Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The speaker promises a troubled heart rest in the grave when love brings grief. What remains unattained in life, the speaker says, will be gained after death, when pain and distress cease.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Meditative Poetry · 142 words
First lines
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Some day, some day / O troubled breast, / Shalt thou find rest.
If Love in thee / To grief give birth, / Six feet of earth / Can more than he; / There calm and free / And unoppressed / Shalt thou find rest.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Three short rhymed stanzas address a troubled heart and repeat the promise that it will find rest.
- Meditative Poetry — The speaker considers the grave as relief from grief and contrasts life's unmet desires with promised fulfillment after death.
Tags
death · love · grief · rest · unfulfilled desires
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Meditative Poetry
- Length: 142 words
- Structure: 1 section, 5 paragraphs
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