SAY farewell, and let me go: Shatter every vow! All the future can bestow Will be welcome now! And if this fair hand I touch I have worshiped overmuch, It was my mistake -- and so, Say farewell, and let me go. Say farewell, and let me go: Murmur no regret, Stay your tear-drops ere they flow -- Do not waste them yet! They might pour as pours the rain, And not wash away the pain: -- I have tried them and I know. -- Say farewell, and let me go. Say farewell, and let me go: Think me not untrue -- True as truth is, even so I am true to you! If the ghost of love may stay Where my fond heart dies to-day, I am with you alway -- so, Say farewell, and let me go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO MARY IN HEAVEN by ROBERT BURNS THE DANCE OF THE SEVIN DEIDLY SYNNIS by WILLIAM DUNBAR AN HORATIAN ODE UPON CROMWELL'S RETURN FROM IRELAND by ANDREW MARVELL ON THE DEATH OF A CAT by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI POCAHONTAS [JANUARY 5, 1608] by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY AFTER THE PLAY by HAMILTON FISH ARMSTRONG I'M SADDEST WHEN I SING by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY |