Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A LEAVE-TAKING: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be one word more Last Line: Within my breast. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation | ||||||||
LET there be one word more Before you go -- Some sweet old thing Remembering, Alas to know -- Some hope you fed, some look you gave, Dead now in love's deep grave. So, speak- and then depart, And I will keep The best of you forever in my heart. All else shall sleep As if death came and taught them to forget. Only the best Of you shall live without regret, Within my breast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN SCINTILLA by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |
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