ESCAPE me? Never -- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, Me the loving and you the loth, While the one eludes, must the other pursue, My life is a fault at last, I fear: It seems too much like a fate, indeed! Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed. But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, And baffled, get up and begin again, -- So the chase takes up one's life, that's all. While, look but once from your farthest bound At me so deep in the dust and dark, No sooner the old hope goes to ground Than a new one, straight to the selfsame mark, I shape me -- Ever Removed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS by AMY LOWELL POETASTER: SONG (4) by BEN JONSON FATHER LAND AND MOTHER TONGUE by SAMUEL LOVER THE SMACK IN SCHOOL by WILLIAM PITT PALMER WOMAN'S BEAUTY by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE |