Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FORGIVEN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH SANGSTER (1894-1981)


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

FORGIVEN, by                    
First Line: You left me when the weary weight of sorrow
Last Line: And told me, dear, that you were glad to come!
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency


You left me when the weary weight of sorrow
Lay, like a stone, upon my bursting heart;
It seemed as if no shimmering tomorrow
Could dry the tears that you had caused to start.
You left me, never telling why you wandered --
Without a word, without a last caress;
Left me with but the love that I had squandered,
The husks of love and a vast loneliness.

And yet if you came back with arms stretched toward me,
Came back tonight, with carefree, smiling eyes,
And said: "My journeying has somehow bored me,
And love, though broken, never, never dies!"
I would forget the wounded heart you gave me,
I would forget the bruises on my soul.
My old-time gods would rise again to save me;
My dreams would grow supremely new and whole.
What though youth lay, a tattered garment, o'er you?
Warm words would leap upon my lips, long dumb;
If you came back, with arms stretched out before you,
And told me, dear, that you were glad to come!





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net