Farewell, false Friend! -- our scenes of kindness close! To cordial looks, to sunny smiles farewell! To sweet consolings, that can grief expel, And every joy soft sympathy bestows! For altered looks, where truth no longer glows, Thou hast prepared my heart; -- and it was well To bid thy pen the unlooked for story tell, Falsehood avowed, that shame, nor sorrow knows. -- O! when we meet, -- (to meet we're destined, try To avoid it as thou may'st) on either brow, Nor in the stealing consciousness of eye, Be seen the slightest trace of what, or how We once were to each other; -- nor one sigh Flatter with weak regret a broken vow! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DYING SWAN by THOMAS STURGE MOORE THE NEW TIMON AND THE POETS by ALFRED TENNYSON A COWBOY TOAST by JAMES BARTON ADAMS ON KEAN'S HAMLET by WASHINGTON ALLSTON FROM AN EXCAVATION ON THE WARRIOR RIVER by ESTHER BARRETT ARGO ONCE ON A TIME by BERTON BRALEY |