"GOOD-BY, my friend!" He takes her hand -- The pressures blend: They understand But vaguely why, with drooping eye, Each moans -- "Good-by! -- Good-by!" "Dear friend, good-by!" O she could smile If she might cry A little while! -- She says, "I @3ought@1 to smile -- but I -- Forgive me -- @3There!@1 -- Good-by!" "'Good-by?' Ah, no: I hate," says he, "These 'good-bys' so!" "And @3I,"@1 says she, "Detest them so -- why, I should @3die@1 Were this a @3real@1 'good-by'!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOUR LITTLE FOXES by LEW SARETT HOLYHEAD, SEPTEMBER 25, 1727 by JONATHAN SWIFT FAR - FAR - AWAY (FOR MUSIC) by ALFRED TENNYSON BIVOUAC ON A MOUNTAIN SIDE by WALT WHITMAN EARTH TRIUMPHANT by CONRAD AIKEN TANGLED TRAILS by GLADYS NAOMI ARNOLD A SONNET TO HEAVENLY BEAUTY by JOACHIM DU BELLAY |