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When We Two Parted

Poetry

And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair

By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth

Darkness

Epistle to Augusta

Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer

I Would I Were a Careless Child

Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull

My Soul is Dark

Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom

On Chillon

On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year

Prometheus

She Walks in Beauty

Stanzas To Augusta

The Destruction of Sennacherib

When We Two Parted







When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning
Sank chill on my brow -
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me -
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well: -
Long, long shall I rue thee
Too deeply to tell.

In secret we met -
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears.




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