Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORSAKEN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poet's Biography First Line: I would not buy my happiness Last Line: And pass me by. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Fate; Destiny | ||||||||
I WOULD not buy my happiness At price of thine, My words shall only come to bless This other newer love of thine, And I will lay no bitter stress On the forgotten promise of thy love, But rather shall this sad sweet memory prove Comfort in my so great distress, It once was mine. Thy newer love shall have from me No thought of hate, But whoso can awake in thee A love that seems to me so great, Shall higher in my honour be, As being raised by thee to so much height. Ah! no, I will not whisper of my right, I bear my sorrow, be thou free,-- I blame but fate. My fate, O God! my fate to know This agony, To hold long combating with woe, Struggling to hide it from all eye, Nor pain thee with a mournful brow-- I will not vex thee with my misery, I will not chide at thine inconstancy: Be happy still, as thou art now, And pass me by. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION by ROBERT BLY FROST AND HIS ENEMIES by ROBERT BLY THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR UNABLE TO FIND by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS WE COME BACK by KENNETH REXROTH THE WAKING (2) by THEODORE ROETHKE CIRCE by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER |
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