Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AMORIS VICTIMA: 4, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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First Line: I know that you are lost to me, and yet
Last Line: For love's sake, to forget you for one hour!
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


I know that you are lost to me, and yet
I will not think it. If I could but get
This too obsequious heart out of your power
For one forgetting and contracted hour,
This heart that from remembrance has not won
Oblivion or even rebellion!
I must not think: there's safety that one way.
I must not think of you, not even to say
"I have forgotten." I will think of -- who?
All other women, since they are not you!
Ah! but that's weakness: can I not be strong,
As you are, in your rage to do me wrong?
O! lest I hate you, let my love have power,
For love's sake, to forget you for one hour!





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