Love

The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, LIII: The same continued

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840–1922

From The Poetical Works (1914), vol. I

Love

Farewell, then. It is finished. I forgo
With this all right in you, even that of tears.
If I have spoken hardly, it will show
How much I loved you. With you disappears
A glory, a romance of many years.
What you may be henceforth I will not know.
The phantom of your presence on my fears
Is impotent at length for weal or woe.
Your past, your present, all alike must fade
In a new land of dreams where love is not.
Then kiss me and farewell. The choice is made
And we shall live to see the past forgot,
If not forgiven. See, I came to curse,
Yet stay to bless. I know not which is worse.

MLA

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, LIII: The same continued.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/110/.

Chicago

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen. “The Love Sonnets of Proteus, Juliet, LIII: The same continued.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/blunt/110/.

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