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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography
First Line: She watched the blaze
Last Line: ...I toddled home!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
First Line: She watched the blaze
Last Line: ...I toddled home!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
She watched the blaze,
And so I said the thing I'd come to say,
Pondered for days.
Her lips moved slow,
And the wide eye she flashed on me
Was sudden as a blow.
She turned again,
Her hands clasped her knees, and did not speak
-- She did not deign.
And I, poor gnome!
A chided cur crawls to a hole to hide!
...I toddled home!
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