Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEN AND NOW, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poet's Biography First Line: Once the question was to know Last Line: Only song betrayeth. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
ONCE the question was to know Why you came, and why would go, Once it seem to import so That I should approve you; Ay, in lost days dead and dear, When so often you were here, I could hope and I could fear; Now I only love you. Since your hand hath closed the door, In my soul for evermore All is stiller than before; And the end -- who knoweth? You have gone; to spend your breath, Haply, on the fields of death Where the war-fire thundereth And the palm-tree groweth. Waves and fates have rolled between, Things are not that once have been, Changed the actors, changed the scene Where the singer stayeth; If her love hath wrought her woe, E'en to you, who only know That it ever hath been so, Only song betrayeth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD EGOISME A DEUX' by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |
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