Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONFESSION, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR


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CONFESSION, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because she spoke no word, but parted wide
Last Line: Nothing shall change it till the change of death!'
Subject(s): Bashfulness; Doubt; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Silence; Shyness; Skepticism; Male-female Relations


Because she spoke no word, but parted wide
Her tantalising lips, and 'ces yeux verts,'
Which the romantic poet Baudelaire
Would have held half divine, methought I spied
A fault in her; methought she gently tried
To scout my love with smiling sedulous care,
For that her fancy had gone otherwhere,
And I had grown a shadow at her side.

So long I begged her in my desperate fear
For one kind word, one sigh, one tremulous breath.
'An you be shy, sweet, whisper in mine ear!'
I said in anguish. Then quite suddenly
She spake out loud:—'I have given my love to thee:
Nothing shall change it till the change of Death!'





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