Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO M -, by EDGAR ALLAN POE


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First Line: O! I care not that my earthly lot
Last Line: I cannot be, lady, alone.
Subject(s): Love


1

O! I care not that my earthly lot
Hath -- little of Earth in it --
That years of love have been forgot
In the fever of a minute --

2

I heed not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I --
But that you meddle with my fate
Who am a passer-by.

3

It is not that my founts of bliss
Are gushing -- strange! with tears --
Or that the thrill of a single kiss
Hath palsied many years --

4

'Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs
Which have wither'd as they rose
Lie dead on my heart-strings
With the weight of an age of snows.

5

Nor that the grass -- O! may it thrive!
On my grave is growing or grown --
But that, while I am dead yet alive
I cannot be, lady, alone.





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