Namesake

This is a poem I found randomly about a year ago while I was wasting time on the internet. I thought it was so honest and beautiful (not to mention has my name in it) so I copied it to my desktop. It is still sitting there now. A line from the poem inspired the name of this blog so I thought it was only appropriate to make it my first post.


Far away, where darkness reigneth,
All my dreams of bliss are flown;
Yet with love my gaze remaineth
Fixed on one fair star alone.
But, alas! that star so bright
Sheds no lustre save by night.

If in slumbers ending never,
Gloomy death had sealed thine eyes,
Thou hadst lived in memory ever--
Thou hadst lived still in my sighs;
But, alas! in light thou livest--
To my love no answer givest!

Can the sweet hopes love once cherished

Emma, can they transient prove?

What has passed away and perished--

Emma, say, can that be love?

That bright flame of heavenly birth--

Can it die like things of earth?

"To Emma", By Friedrich von Schiller, 18th Century