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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORIS VICTIMA: 9, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot work: I dare not sit alone
Last Line: Stand listening for your step upon the stair.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
First Line: I cannot work: I dare not sit alone
Last Line: Stand listening for your step upon the stair.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
I cannot work: I dare not sit alone.
There's not a corner here that has not known
Some moment of you, and your pictured eyes
Pursue me with relentless memories.
Here was the chair you sat in; here we lay
Until your face grew fainter with the day,
And, in a veil of kisses, swooning white,
Fell back into the mystery of night.
'Twas here I kissed you first; 'twas there you said,
"I love you," and, "Would God that I were dead!"
And now, when you are gone for evermore,
I pace between the window and the door,
And, in the feverish folly of despair,
Stand listening for your step upon the stair.
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