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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORIS VICTIMA: 11, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I have endured a week's oblivion
Last Line: The soft and sudden barrier of the sky.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
First Line: I have endured a week's oblivion
Last Line: The soft and sudden barrier of the sky.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of
I have endured a week's oblivion
Of foreign faces, I have seen the dawn
Blush through veiled windows, and not vainly sought
Refuge from your intolerable thought.
Now, as I tread these London streets again,
There grows up softly, from the night and rain,
The same old ghostly haunting of your eyes;
And the old poisonous mist of memories
Rises about me, and the old desire
Quickens along my veins in sharper fire.
O! I am lost, you will not set me free,
Unless I turn again, and seek the sea,
Some vague new world of waters, bounded by
The soft and sudden barrier of the sky.
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