Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RENUNCIATION, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE


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First Line: Loose hands and part: I am not she you sought
Last Line: While peace is yours my true heart cannot break!
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Peace


LOOSE hands and part: I am not she you sought,
The fair one whom in all your dreams you see,
But something more of earth and less than she,
That crowded her an instant from your thought.
Blameless we face the fate this hour has brought.
Unwitting I took hers; I set you free
From all that you unwitting gave to me;
Seek her and find her; I do grudge her naught.
Love, after daylight, dark; so there is left
This season stripped of you; but yet I know,
Remembering the old, I cannot make
These new days bitter or myself bereft.
I know, O love, that I do love you so,
While peace is yours my true heart cannot break!





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