Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY DEAREST JULIA, by WILLIAM BARNES


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First Line: Oh! Can or can I not live on
Last Line: Forgetful of my love forgone?'
Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


Oh! can or can I not live on,
Forgetting thee, my love forgone?
'Tis true, where joyful faces crowd
And merry tongues are ringing loud,
Or where some needful work unwrought
May call for all my care and thought,
Or where some landscape, bath'd in light,
May spread to fascinate my sight,
Thy form may melt a while, as fade
Our shades within some welkin shade,
And I awhile may then live on,
Forgetting thee, my love forgone.

But then the thrilling thought comes on,
Of all thy love that's now forgone;
Thy daily toil to earn me wealth,
Thy grief to see me out of health,
Thy yearning readiness to share
The burden of my toil and care,
And all the blessings thou hast wrought
In my behalf by deed and thought.
And then I seem to hear thee calling,
Gloomy fac'd with tear drops falling,
'Canst thou then so soon live on,
Forgetful of my love forgone?'





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