Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IF YOU BUT KNEW, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME



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First Line: If you but knew the tears that fall
Last Line: And ne'er depart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Love - Unrequited


IF YOU but knew the tears that fall
For life unloved and fireside drear,
Perhaps, before my lonely hall,
You would pass near.

If you but knew your power to thrill
My drooping soul by one pure glance.
One look across my window-sill
You'd cast perchance.

If you but knew what soothing balm
One heart can on another pour,
Would you not sit -- a sister calm --
Beside my door?

And if you knew I loved you well,
And loved you too with all my heart,
You'd come to me, with me to dwell,
And ne'er depart.






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