Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON PARTING, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON


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First Line: The kiss, dear maid! Thy lips have left
Last Line: And silent ache for thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


THE kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left
Shall never part from mine,
Till happier hours restore the gift
Untainted back to thine.

Thy parting glance, which fondly beams,
An equal love may see;
The tear that from thine eyelid streams
Can weep no change in me.

I ask no pledge to make me blest
In gazing when alone;
Nor one memorial for a breast,
Whose thoughts are all thine own.

Nor need I write -- to tell the tale
My pen were doubly weak:
Oh! what can idle words avail,
Unless the heart could speak?

By day or night, in weal or woe,
That heart, no longer free,
Must bear the love it cannot show,
And silent ache for thee.






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