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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOUVENIR, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: How you haunt me with your eyes
Last Line: You remember, I forget!
Subject(s): Memory
First Line: How you haunt me with your eyes
Last Line: You remember, I forget!
Subject(s): Memory
How you haunt me with your eyes!
Still that questioning persistence,
Sad and sweet, across the distance
Of the days of love and laughter,
Those old days of love and lies.
Not reproaching, not reproving,
Only, always, questioning,
Those divinest eyes can bring
Memories of certain summers,
Nights of dreaming, days of loving,
When I loved you, when your kiss,
Shyer than a bird to capture,
Lit a sudden heaven of rapture;
When we neither dreamt that either
Could grow old in heart like this.
Do you still, in love's December,
Still remember, still regret
That sweet unavailing debt?
Ah, you haunt me, to remind me
You remember, I forget!
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NERVES by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS