SAY farewell, and let me go: Shatter every vow! All the future can bestow Will be welcome now! And if this fair hand I touch I have worshiped overmuch, It was my mistake -- and so, Say farewell, and let me go. Say farewell, and let me go: Murmur no regret, Stay your tear-drops ere they flow -- Do not waste them yet! They might pour as pours the rain, And not wash away the pain: -- I have tried them and I know. -- Say farewell, and let me go. Say farewell, and let me go: Think me not untrue -- True as truth is, even so I am true to you! If the ghost of love may stay Where my fond heart dies to-day, I am with you alway -- so, Say farewell, and let me go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEN KARSHOOK'S WISDOM by ROBERT BROWNING EVENING CLOUDS by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE THE GOUTY MERCHANT AND THE STRANGER by HORACE SMITH EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 11. LOVE WILL OUT by PHILIP AYRES TWO SONNETS FROM NEW YORK: TOWERS by ADELAIDE NICHOLS BAKER INSCRIPTION IN NETHER STOREY CHURCH IN MEMORY OF RICHARD CAMPLIN by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES |