Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 19. TO --, by ANNA SEWARD


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First Line: Farewell, false friend! -- our scenes of kindness close!
Last Line: Flatter with weak regret a broken vow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Friendship - False Friends; Fair Weather Friends


Farewell, false Friend! -- our scenes of kindness close!
To cordial looks, to sunny smiles farewell!
To sweet consolings, that can grief expel,
And every joy soft sympathy bestows!
For altered looks, where truth no longer glows,
Thou hast prepared my heart; -- and it was well
To bid thy pen the unlooked for story tell,
Falsehood avowed, that shame, nor sorrow knows. --
O! when we meet, -- (to meet we're destined, try
To avoid it as thou may'st) on either brow,
Nor in the stealing consciousness of eye,
Be seen the slightest trace of what, or how
We once were to each other; -- nor one sigh
Flatter with weak regret a broken vow!





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