YES, all is ended now, for I have weighed thee, -- Weighed the light love that has been held so dear, -- Weighed word and look and smile, that have betrayed thee, The careless grace that was not worth a tear. Holding these scales, I marvel at the anguish For thing so slight that long my heart has torn, -- For God's great sun the prisoner's eyes might languish. Not for a torch by some chance passer borne. I do not blame thee for thy heedless playing On the strong chords whose answer was so full, -- Do children care, through daisied meadows straying, What hap befalls the blossoms that they pull? Go on, gay trifler! Take thy childish pleasure: On thee, for thee, may summer always shine: Too stern were Justice, should she seek to measure Thy fitful love by the strong pain of mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...YOUTH AND CUPID by ELIZABETH I AN EPITAPH ON A ROBIN REDBEAST by SAMUEL ROGERS SONNET PREFIXED TO 'THE COMMONWEALTH & GOVERNMENT OF VENICE' by EDMUND SPENSER THE WELCOME TO ALEXANDRA by ALFRED TENNYSON INCIDENT CHARACTERISTIC OF A FAVOURITE DOG by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ONE WOMAN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO -- OCCASIONED BY HIS POEM ON THE SUN by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |