GO! forget me, why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go! forget me -- and to-morrow Brightly smile, and sweetly sing. Smile -- though I shall not be near thee; Sing -- though I shall never hear thee. May thy soul with pleasure shine, Lasting as the gloom of mine. Like the sun, thy presence glowing Clothes the meanest thing in light; And when thou, like him, art going, Loveliest objects fade in night. All things looked so bright about thee, That they nothing seem without thee. By that pure and lucid mind Earthly things were too refined. Go! thou vision, wildly gleaming, Softly on my soul that fell, Go! for me no longer beaming, Hope and beauty, fare ye well! Go! and all that once delighted Take -- and leave me, all benighted, Glory's burning gen'rous swell, Fancy and the poet's shell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SELLING HER ENGAGEMENT RING by KAREN SWENSON A DAY DREAM by EMILY JANE BRONTE THE WELCOME by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS HALSTED STREET CAR by CARL SANDBURG LOVE SONG by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS MASKS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH NUPTIAL ODE ON THE MARRIAGE OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |