Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: 5, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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First Line: There is a woman whom I love and hate
Last Line: Death, hear me not, when I desire her death!
Subject(s): Hate


There is a woman whom I love and hate:
There is no other woman in the world:
Not in her life shall I have any peace.
There is a woman whom I love and hate:
I have not praised her: she is beautiful:
Others have praised her: she has seen my heart:
She looked, and laughed, and looked, and went away.

There is a woman whom I hate and love:
This is my sorrow: she has bound my neck
Within the noose of her long hairs, and bound
My soul within the halter of her dreams,
And fastened down my heart into one place,
Like a rat nailed upon a granary door;
And she has gone a farther way than death.

There is a woman whom I love and hate:
Not in her life shall I have any peace:
Death, hear me not, when I desire her death!





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