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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR, by MARGARET CUNNINGHAM
First Line: And afterward if we should ever meet
Last Line: All that had ceased to matter long ago.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
First Line: And afterward if we should ever meet
Last Line: All that had ceased to matter long ago.
Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation
And afterward if we should ever meet,
Oh, years from now, when love itself shall seem
A sleeping memory or a dusty dream,
It may be I could pass you on the street
And see just this: -- that you are old and slow,
And stout, perhaps, and very gray;
I might remember tranquilly that day
All that had ceased to matter long ago.
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