Sad sorrow’s tender tears were mine,
since my poor heart she did entwine.
Her loving looks and sweetest smiles
breathed beauty; that's how she beguiles!
Yet Sophocles said long ago:
"it's wiser just to let love go,"
but he’d not known her loving glance,
her eyes that tantalize with trance.
He said: "love tempts a traitor’s touch,
betrays and tricks to love too much,
then casts aside upon the sands."
Where Sophocles so smugly stands,
but sorrow’s tears that I have wept,
I'm glad, from Sophocles, were kept!
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Author:
Blue-eyed Bolla (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: February 17th, 2021 08:23
- Comment from author about the poem: my feeble attempt at a sonnet
- Category: Love
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Comments1
firstly and most importantly, this is a really wonderful dedication while seamlessly weaving an insightful and tempered use of referenced archaic genius, executing a 'nod' to your two avenues of inspiration for this write,
personally I gravitate more to Euripides and his empathetically didactic tales, delivered with bravery - in the face of those he opposed...
but see, what you've gifted me - a doorway to past masters and an appreciation for the depth you've cultivated within you..
I thank you for choosing to share dear poet, what a kind gift
Many thanks, LB. I think I took my inspiration from Matthew Arnold's poem, Dover Beach. (one of my favorites) You remember: "...Sophocles long ago heard it on the Aegean... Anyway, glad you could 'read between my lines,' as it were. Also, I think I agree with you about Euripides; his Medea is magnificent. Again, many thanks for giving time to my poor little rhymes.
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