Why renew the fond sweethearting? Is love worth the pain of it? Little lass, the strands are parting. Can you bear the strain of it? Am I the guilty, or another? or indeed the Blessed Name? It is broken; then why bother vainly seeking whom to blame? Love departs from many hearts, strings for so many vessels of clay Passing through so many rings, whose the fault if it wear away? There are too many lovers in the world to lay it to a single sin. At love can the blame be hurled, that the cord is worn so thin? Why renew the fond sweethearting? Is love worth the pain of it? Little lass, the strands are parting; you must bear the strain of it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BEGGAR'S HOLIDAY, FR. BEGGAR'S BUSH by JOHN FLETCHER LIBERTY FOR ALL by WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON SONNET: 35 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE DARK FOREST by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS TO A WILD DUCK by BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON ON SEEING AN OLD POET IN THE CAFE ROYAL by JOHN BETJEMAN A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 21 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |