Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AFTER A PARTING, by ALICE MEYNELL


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First Line: Farewell has long been said; I have forgotten thee
Last Line: They draw my life, my life, out of my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation


Farewell has long been said; I have forgone thee;
I never name thee even.
But how shall I learn virtues and yet shun thee?
For thou art so near Heaven
That heavenward meditations pause upon thee.

Thou dost beset the path to every shrine;
My trembling thoughts discern
Thy goodness in the good for which I pine;
And if I turn from but one sin, I turn
Unto a smile of thine.

How shall I thrust thee apart
Since all my growth tends to thee night and day -
To thee faith, hope, and art?
Swift are the currents setting all one way;
They draw my life, my life, out of my heart.








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