Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORSAKEN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER


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First Line: I would not buy my happiness
Last Line: And pass me by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Fate; Destiny


I WOULD not buy my happiness
At price of thine,
My words shall only come to bless
This other newer love of thine,
And I will lay no bitter stress
On the forgotten promise of thy love,
But rather shall this sad sweet memory prove
Comfort in my so great distress,
It once was mine.

Thy newer love shall have from me
No thought of hate,
But whoso can awake in thee
A love that seems to me so great,
Shall higher in my honour be,
As being raised by thee to so much height.
Ah! no, I will not whisper of my right,
I bear my sorrow, be thou free,--
I blame but fate.

My fate, O God! my fate to know
This agony,
To hold long combating with woe,
Struggling to hide it from all eye,
Nor pain thee with a mournful brow--
I will not vex thee with my misery,
I will not chide at thine inconstancy:
Be happy still, as thou art now,
And pass me by.







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