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First Line: Is there a bitter pang for love removed
Last Line: Of the cold tomb, and the long grass for ever!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


IS there a bitter pang for love removed,
Oh God! The dead love doth not cost more tears
Than the alive, the loving, the beloved --
Not yet not yet beyond all hopes and fears!
Would I were laid
Under the shade
Of the calm grave, and the long grass of years, --

That love might die with sorrow: -- I am sorrow;
And she, that loves me tenderest, doth press
Most poison from my cruel lips, and borrow
Only new anguish from the old caress;
Oh, this world's grief,
Hath no relief,
In being wrung from a great happiness.

Would I had never filled thine eyes with love,
For love is only tears: would I had never
Breathed such a curse-like blessing as we prove;
Now, if "Farewell" could bless thee, I would sever!
Would I were laid
Under the shade,
Of the cold tomb, and the long grass for ever!





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