YES, all is ended now, for I have weighed thee, -- Weighed the light love that has been held so dear, -- Weighed word and look and smile, that have betrayed thee, The careless grace that was not worth a tear. Holding these scales, I marvel at the anguish For thing so slight that long my heart has torn, -- For God's great sun the prisoner's eyes might languish. Not for a torch by some chance passer borne. I do not blame thee for thy heedless playing On the strong chords whose answer was so full, -- Do children care, through daisied meadows straying, What hap befalls the blossoms that they pull? Go on, gay trifler! Take thy childish pleasure: On thee, for thee, may summer always shine: Too stern were Justice, should she seek to measure Thy fitful love by the strong pain of mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HEART'S FIRST WORD (2) by ISAAC ROSENBERG TO AMARANTHA, THAT SHE WOULD DISHEVEL HER HAIR by RICHARD LOVELACE TO LADY ANNE HAMILTON by WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER BEGGAR TO BEGGAR CRIED by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS RELIGIOUS ISOLATION, TO A REPUBLICAN FRIEND by MATTHEW ARNOLD BRITANNIA TO COLUMBIA by ALFRED AUSTIN |