I AM not sorry for my soul That it must go unsatisfied, For it can live a thousand times, Eternity is deep and wide.
I am not sorry for my soul, But oh, my body that must go Back to a little drift of dust Without the joy it longed to know.
In Sara Teasdale’s “Longing,” the speaker makes a quiet distinction between two kinds of loss. She says she is not sorry that her soul will go unsatisfied, because the soul can live many times and has the depth and width of eternity to find fulfillment. What troubles her is her body.
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