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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE REGRET, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: It seems to me, dearest, if you were dead
Last Line: Sometimes you did not love me when you could.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Regret
First Line: It seems to me, dearest, if you were dead
Last Line: Sometimes you did not love me when you could.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Regret
It seems to me, dearest, if you were dead,
And thought returned to me after the tears,
The hopeless first oblivious tears, were shed,
That this would be the bitterest, not that I
Had lost for all sad hours of all my years
The joys enjoyed and happy hours gone by;
Ah no, but that while we had time to live
And love before the coming of the night,
Yet knew the hours of daylight fugitive,
Proud as a child who will not what he would,
Sometimes I did not love you as I might,
Sometimes you did not love me when you could.
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