They bade farewell; but neither spoke of love. The railway bore him off with rapid pace, He gazed awhile on Edith's garden grove, Till alien woodlands overlapp'd the place - Alas! he cried, how mutely did we part! I fear'd to test the truth I seemed to see. Oh! that the love dream in her timid heart Had sigh'd itself awake, and called for me! I could have answer'd with a ready mouth, And told a sweeter dream; but each forebore. He saw the hedgerows fleeting to the north On either side, whilst he look'd sadly forth: Then set himself to face the vacant south, While fields and woods ran back to Edith More. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JOSEPH DIXON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE AMERICAN FLAG by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE DEATH OF THE DAY by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE BIRD WITH THE COPPERY, KEEN CLAWS by WALLACE STEVENS ON THE MANTLEPIECE by JAMES LANE ALLEN |