In A Minor Key Comments

I cite here one more stanza, the final, I regard all are most beautifully thought and worded: But, ere I could reach you where you lay, Must strength and substance and honour spend; Journey long journeys by night and day- Somehow, I think I should come, my friend! True mesmerizing and she captured all loveliest. A most deserving CLASSIC Poem Of The Day, Hurray! Once again my CONGRATULATIONS for her family. God´s Blessings!

Fourteen stanzas long, all stanzas of the same beauty and best end rhymes, this lady shows much talent and much attention for the written word, enjoyed all stanzas and I have chosen one to cite here: And yet- and yet- I scarce can tell why (As I said, we are riddles and hard to read) , If the world went ill with you, and I Could help with a hidden hand your need; Truly enjoyed such talented gift of Amy Levy. CONGRATULATIONS for the family.

Love is the deepest emotion well in our life, The greatest contrasts between major and minor keys, Love beyond splendor and squalor, The grand orchestra we are attending, Great poem from the poet

'Soul has its tones and its semitones, Mind has its major and minor keys.' Classic poetry. A fitting choice for Poem of the Day! A fitting choice for Poem of the Day

hat was love that I had before Years ago, when my heart was young; Ev'ry smile was a gem you wore; Ev'ry word was a sweet song sung.... doomed to part. pain suffering separation. very fine poem.

Ev'ry smile was a gem you wore; Ev'ry word was a sweet song sung.......much impressive with lofty theme, It is glad that this poem has been selected as the poem of the day for second time.

Beautiful rhyming poem, Amy. Bravo!

Love in young age and when the person is old and matured depicted with it's intensity and colorful facets. A brilliant classic deserving classic of the day.

A beautiful love poem. Kingsley Egbukole

There is a feeling of a 'Love that dare not speak its name.' and one wonders if there is a strain of surpressed homosexuality in the poem. Having said that it is such beautiful and heart rending piece that can be read on many levels with much hidden meaning.

Years ago! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

Intended as such or not, this is a meditation on how romantic feelings change over time—and a finely written one. For myself, I haven’t experienced the excruciating desire of adolescence since then and have no desire to revisit it. But this poem causes us to ask what love is. And what is it within marriage, for example, when over more than four decades, in my case, we go through all the changes that are part of aging. A feeling? A commitment? -GK

TWO: Despite her very busy activities and though she was well educated in literature, Amy Levy suffered from a diagnose of major depression since her early years. Must be noted that she committed suicide at the age of 27. Her era was the Victorian period, remarkable 14 stanzas long to decide whether to go or not, visiting her sick old friend. Oscar Wilde wrote an obituary for her in Women's World in which he praised her gifts. May she R.I.P.

ONE: Congratulations being chosen as the Classic Poem Of The Day. The poetess had love when her heart was young, all was full of passion, but finally when she had to go to visit the sick old friend, that was hard to do, e.g. long journeys by night and day to spend, and the strength, substance and honor, but at last she decided to come.

Is it love that I have to-day? Love, that bloom'd early, has it bloom'd late......so touching and impressive. Beautiful poem.

The likeness to music in a minor or a major key, is the love that is experienced when it is young and new but not as enduring as the love, more mature of friendship.

Such a great poem by Amy Levy...................................

So many beautiful lines, the poem is full of them! Such truths about the heart's own ways that we scarcely understand! A masterpiece!