Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LADY FAIR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE


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First Line: Lady fair, have we not met?
Last Line: Have we not met, lady fair?
Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Women


LADY fair, have we not met
In our lives elsewhere?
Darkling in my mind to-night
Faint fair faces dare
Memory's old unfaithfulness
To what was true and fair.
Long of memory is Regret,
But what Regret has taken flight
Through my memory's silences?
Lo! I turn it to the light.
'Twas but a pleasure in distress,
Too faint and far off for redress.
But some light glancing in your hair
And in the liquid of your eyes
Seem to murmur old good-byes
In our lives elsewhere.
Have we not met, Lady fair?





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