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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CANTIGA, by THOMAS WALSH
First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go
Last Line: Are penalties the absent know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Absence; Change; Forgetfulness; Spain; Separation; Isolation
First Line: Let him whose time hath come to go
Last Line: Are penalties the absent know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Absence; Change; Forgetfulness; Spain; Separation; Isolation
After the Spanish of Manrique, 1440-1479
LET him whose time hath come to go
Put never faith where he must part;
Forgetfulness and change of heart
Are penalties the absent know.
You would be loved—a lover you?—
Then pay your court incessant there,
For hardly are you vanished ere
Remembrance goes as lightly too.
Be done with idle hope, and start
Let him, whose time hath come to go;
Forgetfulness and change of heart
Are penalties the absent know.
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