DEAR, if I told you, made your sorrow certain,
Showed you the ghosts that o’er my pillow lean,
What joy were mine–to cast aside the curtain
And clasp you close with no base lies between!
You have given all, and still would find to give me
More love, more tenderness than ever yet:
You would forgive me–ah, you would forgive me,
But all your life you never would forget.
And I, thank God, can still in your embraces
Forget the past, with all its strife and stain,
–But if you, too, beheld the evil faces,
I should forget them never, never again!
(Edith Nesbit)
More Poetry from Edith Nesbit:
Edith Nesbit Poems based on Topics: Love, God, Faces, Joy & Excitement, Past, Ghost, Good & Evil- The Moat House (Edith Nesbit Poems)
- Tekel (Edith Nesbit Poems)
- After Sixty Years (Edith Nesbit Poems)
- Two Christmas Eves (Edith Nesbit Poems)
- Absolution (Edith Nesbit Poems)
- At The Gate (Edith Nesbit Poems)
Readers Who Like This Poem Also Like:
Based on Topics: Love Poems, God Poems, Faces Poems, Joy & Excitement Poems, Past Poems, Good & Evil Poems, Ghost PoemsBased on Keywords: me-ah, mine-to
- One Day And Another: A Lyrical Eclogue - Part IV (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
- The Fate Of Henry Hudson (Nora Pembroke Poems)
- Medulla Poetarum Romanorum - VOL. II. (Storm - Summer) (Henry Baker Poems)
- The Ghost, (Richard Harris Barham Poems)
- Advice To Hear, And To Read, The Word Of God (Rees Prichard Poems)