"AM I to lose you now?" The words were light; You spoke them, hardly seeking a reply, That day I bid you quietly "Good-bye," And sought to hide my soul away from sight. The question echoed, dear, through many a night, -- My question, not your own -- most wistfully; "Am I to lose him?" -- asked my heart of me; "Am I to lose him now, and lose him quite?" And only you can tell me. Do you care That sometimes we in quietness should stand As fellow-solitudes, hand firm in hand, And thought with thought and hope with hope compare? What is your answer? Mine must ever be, "I greatly need your friendship: leave it me." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BIRD AND BROOK by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES TO MRS. MARTHA BLOUNT (ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1723) by ALEXANDER POPE CELESTIAL HEIGHTS by ALFRED AUSTIN THREE SONNETS WRITTEN IN MID-CHANNEL: 1 by ALFRED AUSTIN A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 34 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 104. WRITTEN AT FLORENCE: 2 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |