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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 44. FAREWELL TO JULIET (6), by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet we shall live without love, as some live Last Line: Then home to pleasure and the funeral feast. | |||
Yet we shall live without love, as some live Without their limbs, their senses, maimed or deaf. We even shall forget love, and shall thrive And prosper and grow fat upon our grief. You are consoled already more than half, And wear your sorrow lightly. I will boast No longer the refusal of relief Than as a decent mourner of hopes crossed. We yet shall laugh, and laughter is more loud When following tears. The men who drive a hearse Are not the least lighthearted of the crowd. See, we have made love's epitaph in verse And fairly buried him. God's ways are best. Then home to pleasure and the funeral feast. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ESTHER; A YOUNG MAN'S TRAGEDY: 51 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 110. THE OASIS OF SIDI KHALED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 112. GIBRALTAR by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 55. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 60. FAREWELL TO JULIET (9) by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE LOVE SONNETS OF PROTEUS: 88. A DAY IN SUSSEX by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE OLD SQUIRE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A BALLAD OF THE HEATHER by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A CHAUNT IN PRAISE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT A CUCKOO SONG by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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