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Read & copy the quotation
“Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring again: Twice no one dies.”
- Date
- 1901
Meaning of “Wintertime nighs; But my bereavement-pain It cannot bring…”
Returning winter cannot recreate the first shock of bereavement, suggesting that repeated seasons may revisit memory without reproducing an earlier loss in exactly the same form.
Where does it come from?
“De Profundis I,” Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), Project Gutenberg #3168. The poem reflects on recurring seasons and a past bereavement; it does not prescribe a universal grief timetable.
