I Live I Die I Burn I Drown

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I live, I die, I burn, I drown
I endure at once chill and cold
Life is at once too soft and too hard
I have sore troubles mingled with joys

Suddenly I laugh and at the same time cry
And in pleasure many a grief endure
My happiness wanes and yet it lasts unchanged
All at once I dry up and grow green

Thus I suffer love’s inconstancies
And when I think the pain is most intense
Without thinking, it is gone again.

Then when I feel my joys certain
And my hour of greatest delight arrived
I find my pain beginning all over once again.

by Louise Labe


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17 Responses to “I Live I Die I Burn I Drown”

  1. like oh my gawd
    i love this poem
    its like
    the best one i have EVER read
    && i totally understand what its saying

  2. really amazing and a great view of life

  3. its meaningful! keep it up

  4. this poem is good yo : )
    you’re poems have posititive impact .

  5. that was crap

  6. that touched my heart.

  7. That was cool, I was all like woh!

  8. MAN! OMFG, That ruleszzzzz I was all like YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA ima no more emo anymore… it was predjjjduz

  9. i like it.. but if your a christian u’ll never go through that sittuation.. LOVE IS PATIENT…and plus this is not the reason why your living.

  10. Your poem was really pretty

  11. wow

  12. nice poem i wuz wow cuz it awe some yoooo

  13. I love it …………………it made me want to cry I complete understand it

  14. beautiful.

  15. i loved this pokemon poem! the battle was intense!

  16. Wow,
    im going through exactly
    what this poem is explaining.
    i rly lk it(:

  17. it pretty good
    says Barbara

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