Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IRREVOCABLE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: I sometimes wonder what my life doth mean
Last Line: Only to think of you no more were best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


I sometimes wonder what my life doth mean
Now you are gone; the long, bright days, the nights
Of silence, the vicissitudes, the sights,
The intrusive sounds, the dull, continuous scene --
It only minds me of the might-have-been,
And in itself a taper is that lights
Its own dark solitude: my spirit fights
In vain to pierce the veil and look within.

The fountain of my tears is sealed and dry;
I do not grieve; my laughter is a jest;
My prayers an arid bitterness; each sigh
The heedless habit of a tired breast.
My heart is dead; and when I come to die,
Only to think of you no more were best.





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