I loved her; and you say she loved me not. Well, if I loved her? And if she forgot, Well, I have not forgotten even yet: Time, and spent tears, may teach me to forget. And so she loves another, and did then When she was heaven and earth to me, and when, Truly, she made me happy. It may be: I only know how good she was to me. Friend, to have loved, to have been made happy thus, What better fate has life in store for us, The dream of life from which we have to wake, Happier, why not? why not for a dream's sake? To have been loved is well, and well enough For any man: but 'tis enough to love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A DOG'S MEMORY by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY ACCORDING TO THE MIGHTY WORKING by THOMAS HARDY AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 2. FORMER BEAUTIES by THOMAS HARDY A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN (IN THE DORIC MANNER) by JONATHAN SWIFT THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT by JONATHAN SWIFT HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |