Love
To a Portrait
From A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895 (ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman, 1895)
LoveDeath & Dying
A pensive photograph
Watches me from the shelf —
Ghost of old love, and half
Ghost of myself!
How the dear waiting eyes
Watch me and love me yet —
Sad home of memories,
Her waiting eyes!
Ghost of old love, wronged ghost,
Return: though all the pain
Of all once loved, long lost,
Come back again.
Forget not, but forgive!
Alas, too late I cry.
We are two ghosts that had their chance to live,
And lost it, she and I.
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Symons, Arthur. “To a Portrait.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/symons/12/.
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