The later work with this name ends with the line "To do something very common in my own way" and features the image of a poster on a bus that tells the speaker "my bleeding is under control.
The later work with this name ends with the line "To do something very common in my own way" and features the image of a poster on a bus that tells the speaker "my bleeding is under control." It begins "My swirling wants. Your frozen lips" and in moment of fun with the author of the original notes "the grammar turned and attacked me." Adrienne Rich's language contrasts acutely with that of the first one which asserts that "when the other far doth roam" the love will still be there. That version, written for the author's wife before leaving for a trip to the continent, [*] begins with the lines "As virtuous men pass mildly away" and encourages its addressee to make no noise or shed no tears. FTP identify these poems, the more famous of which compares the souls of two lovers as two "stiff twin compasses," and was written by John Donne.
The later work with this name ends with the line "To do something very common in my own way" and features the image of a poster on a bus that tells the speaker "my bleeding is under control.
{A Valediction Forbidding Mourning}