I DO not need you now! Thus do I end Our days together, O beloved friend; Thus do I shake all remnants of the past Out of my life; and thus I say at last, "I do not need you now!" I do not need you now! Our love is done, And in this hour of parting, one by one I watch the years we spent together fade Into the cold oblivion I have made. I do not need you now! I do not need you now! The faith is gone That made our love, from dawn to silver dawn, A thing most wonderful. Bravely I cry (Exulting in the shame of my deep lie!), "I do not need you now!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GRANDMOTHER'S STORY OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A COUNTRY NOSEGAY by ALFRED AUSTIN A SONNET. PLATONIC LOVE by PHILIP AYRES TO NIMUE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT ON THE DEATH OF COMMODORE OLIVER H. PERRY by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD ONLY A CURL by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY - 1834 by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER |