Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO ONE IN ALIENATION: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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First Line: As I lay on the stranger's bed
Last Line: My lips were sobbing on your name.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Estrangement; Outcasts


As I lay on the stranger's bed,
And clasped the stranger-woman I had hired,
Desiring only memory dead
Of all that I had once desired;

It was then that I wholly knew
How wholly I had loved you, and, my friend,
While I am I, and you are you,
How I must love you to the end.

For I lay in her arms awake,
Awake and cursing the indifferent night,
That ebbed so slowly, for your sake,
My heart's desire, my soul's delight;

For I lay in her arms awake,
Awake in such a solitude of shame,
That when I kissed her, for your sake,
My lips were sobbing on your name.





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