Love

The Growth of Love: Sonnet 68

by Robert Bridges 1844–1930

From The Growth of Love

Love

Away now, lovely Muse, roam and be free:
Our commerce ends for aye, thy task is done:
Tho' to win thee I left all else unwon,
Thou, whom I most have won, art not for me.
My first desire, thou too forgone must be,
Thou too, O much lamented now, tho' none
Will turn to pity thy forsaken son,
Nor thy divine sisters will weep for thee.

None will weep for thee: thou return, O Muse,
To thy Sicilian fields: I once have been
On thy loved hills, and where thou first didst use
Thy sweetly balanced rhyme, O thankless queen,
Have pluck'd and wreath'd thy flowers; but do thou choose
Some happier brow to wear thy garlands green.

MLA

Bridges, Robert. “The Growth of Love: Sonnet 68.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bridges/133/.

Chicago

Bridges, Robert. “The Growth of Love: Sonnet 68.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bridges/133/.

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