IT was so hard to say good-bye, To drift apart from you; But harder still to live the lie That swept the long years through. O better far it were that we Down different paths should stray; Better that we should part than be So close, yet far away! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN by ANNE BRADSTREET MARTHY VIRGINIA'S HAND [SEPTEMBER 17, 1862] by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY by JOHN MILTON THE HIRED MAN by EVA K. ANGLESBURG JERUSALEM; THE EMANATION OF THE GIANT ALBION: CHAPTER 3 by WILLIAM BLAKE AUTUMN SUNSET ON THE SIERRA NEVADAS by DOROTHY BOARDMAN SUBJECT LOVE, FOR THE VASE AT BATHEASTON VILLA by JANE BOWDLER |