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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHANGED, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poet's Biography First Line: They told me she was still the same Last Line: And now she is not mine. | |||
THEY told me she was still the same, In form, and mind, and heart; With freshly-dawning joy I came, And now in grief depart. Still round the forehead, smooth and white, The golden tresses twine, The face is fair, the step is light, As when I called her mine. And yet the mouth that once I kissed Is not the same as then; The smile of love I never missed Comes not for me again. More measured is the silver voice, The words more fitly said; But while she speaks, I half rejoice To feel my love is dead. The eyes are deeper than before, And far more subtly sweet; And yet I pray that mine no more Their altered glance may meet. My dream is past. I loved a child, The woman I resign; The world and she are reconciled, And now she is not mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MODERN APOSTLE by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN BOOKS by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN CHRIST, THE NAZARENE by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN DAY-DREAMS by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN DEDICATION TO J.C. AND CAROLINE WOODHILL by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: NATURAL SELECTION by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SCIENTIFIC WOOING by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: SOLOMON REDIVIVUS, 1886 by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN EVOLUTIONARY EROTICS: THE NEW ORTHODOXY by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN FRIENDSHIP by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN JANUARY 28TH, 1880 by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN LAMENT OF THE CORK-CELL by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN |
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