Come back to me! but not as now ye are, O friends afar! For it were pain, More keen than parting, so to meet again, With all the change that time, perchance, hath wrought In form and thought, To make us strangers in each other's eyes, Save for long-cloistered sympathies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEDOUIN [LOVE] SONG by BAYARD TAYLOR BATUSCHKA by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH FANCY AND IMAGINATION by BERNARD BARTON BUSINESS GIRLS by JOHN BETJEMAN FOURTH BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1. A LITTLE BREATH I'LL BORROW by THOMAS CAMPION MEN THAT HAVE STRENGTH by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE LAWS OF BEAUTY by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES |