I DOST thou miss me, Heart of mine? Doth thy soul its fellow know? Is my sorrow also thine? Doth the inward trouble grow? II Do the morning sunbeams wake Hopes to which the heart @3must@1 cling, The alternate joy and ache That another day will bring? III As, between each kindling thought, Vistas of the treasured past Thro' dim avenues have caught Glory all too bright to last. IV Then the vacancy, the void, Where no love-wind ever blew! And oh, the darkness unalloy'd I' the gulf betwixt us two! V Trivial things of sight and sound Stab remembrance in the brain, Opening up afresh Love's wound, Quickening every pulse of pain. VI Hourly doth thy lover's face Come between thy task and thee, Shaking thy resolvéd peace With its one eternal plea? VII Hast thou never at eve's fall Put thy work by with a sigh, Heard a voice within thee call, 'I must go to him or die?' VIII It were wiser, wiser far Thou and I should never meet! Lest the flame of passion mar Lives that both of us hold sweet. IX Something doth remain of bliss Even unto sunder'd souls— Even in the joys we miss There's a leaven that Love controls! X Veil'd in clouds Love's star hath set, Darkness covers all the shore, Down the winds of vain regret Wails that one word—Nevermore! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SMALLISH SON by HAYDEN CARRUTH FOR ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S EVE by MALCOLM COWLEY TRANSLUCENT FINGERS by MALCOLM COWLEY SONGS FOR TWO SEASONS: 1. AFTER GRAVE ILLNESS by CAROL FROST JAWEH AND ALLAH BATTLE by ALLEN GINSBERG THE SEMANTICS OF FLOWERS ON MEMORIAL DAY by BOB HICOK |