"FORGET thee?" -- If to dream by night, and muse on thee by day, If all the worship, deep and wild, a poet's heart can pay, If prayers in absence breathed for thee to Heaven's protecting power, If winged thoughts that flit to thee -- a thousand in an hour, If busy fancy blending thee with all my future lot, -- If this thou call'st "forgetting," thou indeed shalt be forgot! "Forget thee?" -- Bid the forest-birds forget their sweetest tune; "Forget thee?" -- Bid the sea forget to swell beneath the moon; Bid the thirsty flowers forget to drink the eve's refreshing dew; Thyself forget thine "own dear land,": and its "mountains wild and blue;" Forget each old familiar face, each long-remembered spot; -- When these things are forgot by thee, then thou shalt be forgot! Keep, if thou wilt, thy maiden peace, still calm and fancy-free, For God forbid thy gladsome heart should grow less glad for me; Yet, while that heart is still unwon, O, bid not mine to rove, But let it nurse its humble faith and uncomplaining love; If these, preserved for patient years, at last avail me not, Forget me then; -- but ne'er believe that thou canst be forgot! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A THOUGHT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE SUN GOD by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 105 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI SHE LOOKS BEYOND TO-MORROW by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 37 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |