Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by MARGARET DELANEY


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First Line: I shall not stoop to cavil with you now
Last Line: Faint vagrant whisperings. ... When hearts are old.


I shall not stoop to cavil with you now
Of this or that, or seek to place the blame;
No idle words restore a sacred vow
And broken friendships never are the same.
Let life go on ... if I can just forget
That sacred altar fire lit with you,
While Memory keeps a little votive light
For all the happy carefree days we knew.

For dreams are fragile things to patch or mend!
Better to let the scattered fragments fly
To mingle with the star dust and to send
From vasty, mystic realms of blue on high
In some dark year a little glint of gold. ...
Faint vagrant whisperings. ... when hearts are old.





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