"AM I to lose you now?" The words were light; You spoke them, hardly seeking a reply, That day I bid you quietly "Good-bye," And sought to hide my soul away from sight. The question echoed, dear, through many a night, -- My question, not your own -- most wistfully; "Am I to lose him?" -- asked my heart of me; "Am I to lose him now, and lose him quite?" And only you can tell me. Do you care That sometimes we in quietness should stand As fellow-solitudes, hand firm in hand, And thought with thought and hope with hope compare? What is your answer? Mine must ever be, "I greatly need your friendship: leave it me." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE OLD STOIC by EMILY JANE BRONTE AT THE GRAVE OF BURNS; SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH EXPLANATION by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN SUMMER APPROACHES by MABEL WARREN ARNOLD SPLENDID ISOLATION; A MORAL FROM LEXINTON, 1775 by KATHARINE LEE BATES IN WILTSHIRE; SUGGESTED BY POINTS OF SIMILARITY WITH THE SOMME COUNTRY by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |