Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SURRENDER, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poet's Biography First Line: So hard I strove to crowd you from my heart Last Line: Come, if you will, although you bring me pain! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of | ||||||||
SO hard I strove to crowd you from my heart, You who once loved, but love me now no more; Yet all the weary night your face would start Out of the blackness and the midnight's door, And smile -- to mock me! -- as it did of yore. Why is it that your name is on my tongue When the gray dawn first creeps across the hill? Why is it, ere the lark his song has sung, Your voice is in my brain, and singing still The old, old love that taunts my weakened will? There is no shore that can resist the sea! O I have striven to forget, in vain; So give me now the olden memory, Come, if you will, through distance and bleak rain; Come, if you will, although you bring me pain! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ROSE AND MURRAY by CONRAD AIKEN THOUGH WE NO LONGER POSSESS IT by MARK JARMAN THE GLORY OF THE DAY WAS IN HER FACE by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON LOVE COME AND GONE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 28 by JAMES JOYCE CHAMBER MUSIC: 33 by JAMES JOYCE A SCOTCH SONG by JOANNA BAILLIE CITY ROOFS by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE |
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