WHY did you turn your face away? Was it for grief or fear Your strength would fail or your pride grow weak, If you touched my hand, if you heard me speak, After a life-long year? Why did you turn your face away? Was it for love or hate? Or the spell of that wild miraculous hour That hurled our souls with relentless power In the eddying fires of Fate? Turn not your face from me, O Love! Shall Sorrow or Death conspire To set our suffering spirits free From the passionate bondage of Memory Or the thrall of the old desire? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE VISION OF JUDGEMENT by GEORGE GORDON BYRON DESERT FLOWERS by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: EPILOGUE by ALFRED TENNYSON THE LIVING BOOK by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES OF MUSIC by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'THAT WE MAY ROW WITH MY P. OVER YE FERRY' by PATRICK CAREY |