<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402228" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sonnet-ballad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?<br>They took my lover's tallness off to war,<br>Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess<br>What I can use an empty heart-cup for.<br>He won't be coming back here any more.<br>Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew<br>When he went walking grandly out that door<br>That my sweet love would have to be untrue.<br>Would have to be untrue. Would have to court<br>Coquettish death, whose impudent and strange<br>Possessive arms and beauty (of a sort)<br>Can make a hard man hesitate--and change.<br>And he will be the one to stammer, &quot;Yes.&quot;<br>Oh mother, mother, where is happiness?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gwendolyn+Brooks">Gwendolyn Brooks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402228" data-title="The Sonnet-ballad de Gwendolyn Brooks" data-description="Oh mother, mother, where is happiness? They took my lover's tallness off to war, Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess What I can use an empty heart-cup for. He won't be coming back here any more. Some day the war will end, but, oh, I knew When he..."></div> </div> </div>

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