Love
The End of the Episode
From The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse (1918)
Love
There is no need to say good-bye,
And weep ;
There is no call on us for tear or sigh.
Men say : Just as ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Is that, think you, a lie ?
Now fate points out our different ways,
And so
We leave the spot where glamour clothed the days-
Leave for those duller worlds that lie below,
With something like amaze.
No use to curse ; whatever crossed
Our way,
No need for words ; when hearts are tempest-tossed-
But those alone may know the cost, who pay,
And bankrupt, pay the cost.
Cite this poem
MLA
Bourke, J. P. “The End of the Episode.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bourke_jp/0/.
Chicago
Bourke, J. P. “The End of the Episode.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bourke_jp/0/.