Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
1I was angry with my friend.
2I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
3I was angry with my foe.
4I told it not, my wrath did grow;
5And I water'd it in fears,
6Night and morning with my tears;
7And I sunned it with smiles,
8And with soft deceitful wiles;
9And it grew both day and night
10Till it bore an apple bright,
11And my foe beheld it shine,
12And he knew that it was mine,
13And into my garden stole
15In the morning glad I see
Notes
14] the pole: the North Star. Back to Line
16] Blake's Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (from Genesis), by the eating of apples from which Eve and Adam fell and were cast by God out of Eden and punished with death. Here the speaker would seem to be God, not Satan, who tempted Eve to eat the fruit but did not plant the tree. Back to Line