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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VAIN FAREWELL, by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS Poet's Biography First Line: The last farewell is on my tongue Last Line: My heart doth hang. Alternate Author Name(s): Paul The Silent; Paul The Silentiary Subject(s): Farewell; Parting | |||
THE last farewell is on my tongue, But fierce I draw the rein: The word recoils as backward flung, -- And I remain. For bitter as the stream of death In everlasting night Is that fell hour that sundereth Me from thy sight. The light of thee is like the day; Yet daylight is but dumb, But when thou comest in the way, Sweet voices come: -- Tones sweeter than the Sirens' song That on the waters rang; And there with all its hopes in throng My heart doth hang. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE THREE CHILDREN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN STUDY #2 FOR B.B.L. by JUNE JORDAN WATCHING THE NEEDLEBOATS AT SAN SABBA by JAMES JOYCE SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES EPITAPH by PAULUS SILENTIARIUS |
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