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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PARTING, by ANONYMOUS First Line: Without one bitter feeling let us part Last Line: Remember that I thank you from my heart! Subject(s): Absence;hearts;love;youth; Separation;isolation | |||
WITHOUT one bitter feeling let us part And for the years in which your love has shed A radiance like a glory round my head, I thank you, yes, I thank you from my heart. I thank you for the cherished hope of years, A starry future, dim and yet divine, Winging its way from heaven to be mine, Laden with joy, and ignorant of tears. I thank you, yes, I thank you even more That my heart learnt not without love to live, But gave and gave, and still had more to give From an abundant and exhaustless store. I thank you and no grief is in these tears; I thank you not in bitterness but truth, For the fair vision that adorned my youth And glorified so many happy years. Yet how much more I thank you that you tore At last the veil that you had woven, away; I saw the thing I worshipped was of clay, And vain and false what I had knelt before. I thank you that you taught me the stern truth, (None other could have told and I believed), That vain had been my life, and I deceived, And wasted all the purpose of my youth. I thank you that your hand dashed down the shrine, Wherein my idol worship I had paid; Else had I never known a soul was made To serve and worship only the Divine. I thank you that the heart I cast away On such as you, though broken, bruised, and crushed, Now that its fiery throbbing is all hushed, Upon a worthier altar I can lay. I thank you for the lesson that such love Is a perverting of God's royal right, That is it made but for the Infinite, And all too great to live except above. I thank you for a terrible awaking, And if reproach seemed hidden in my pain, And sorrow seemed to cry on your disdain, Know that my blessing lay in your forsaking. Farewell for ever now; in peace we part; And should an idle vision of my tears Arise before your soul in after years Remember that I thank you from my heart! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EVENING OF THE MIND by DONALD JUSTICE CHRISTMAS AWAY FROM HOME by JANE KENYON THE PROBLEM by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by DAVID LEHMAN THIS UNMENTIONABLE FEELING by DAVID LEHMAN TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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