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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GO! FORGET ME!, by CHARLES WOLFE Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Forget me, why should sorrow Last Line: Fancy and the poet's shell. Subject(s): Grief | |||
GO! forget me, why should sorrow O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go! forget me -- and to-morrow Brightly smile, and sweetly sing. Smile -- though I shall not be near thee; Sing -- though I shall never hear thee. May thy soul with pleasure shine, Lasting as the gloom of mine. Like the sun, thy presence glowing Clothes the meanest thing in light; And when thou, like him, art going, Loveliest objects fade in night. All things looked so bright about thee, That they nothing seem without thee. By that pure and lucid mind Earthly things were too refined. Go! thou vision, wildly gleaming, Softly on my soul that fell, Go! for me no longer beaming, Hope and beauty, fare ye well! Go! and all that once delighted Take -- and leave me, all benighted, Glory's burning gen'rous swell, Fancy and the poet's shell. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE I HAVE FOLDED MY SORROWS by BOB KAUFMAN THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA by CHARLES WOLFE |
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