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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poet's Biography
First Line: O bear it, bear it, lonely heart
Last Line: And then alone as I?
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: O bear it, bear it, lonely heart
Last Line: And then alone as I?
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
O BEAR it, bear it, lonely heart,
As men have borne before;
A little while alive thou art,
And then shalt ache no more.
Behold I bear it as I may,
Mine eyes refuse me tears,
I suffer in a single day
The misery of years.
Down the deep vale, as one who dreamed,
Thro' the dim dusk I ran;
And strangely to myself I seemed
A God-forsaken man.
No human voice the valley knows,
No trump that calls the kine,
But thunder of the sliding snows
And silence of the pine.
So many vows, so many sighs,
So great delight forgot!
O answer, sweet accustomed eyes, --
Alas, they answered not.
O friend who hearest, hast thou known
The death that love can die?
And hast thou once been not alone,
And then alone as I?
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