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 | Poetical Works of Robert Bridges excluding the eight dramas |  |
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[When my love was away]
When my love was away,
Full three days were not sped,
I caught my fancy astray
Thinking if she were dead,
Full three days were not sped,
I caught my fancy astray
Thinking if she were dead,
And I alone, alone:
It seemed in my misery
In all the world was none
Ever so lone as I.
It seemed in my misery
In all the world was none
Ever so lone as I.
I wept; but it did not shame
Nor comfort my heart: away
I rode as I might, and came
To my love at close of day.
Nor comfort my heart: away
I rode as I might, and came
To my love at close of day.
The sight of her stilled my fears,
My fairest-hearted love:
And yet in her eyes were tears:
Which when I questioned of,
My fairest-hearted love:
And yet in her eyes were tears:
Which when I questioned of,
O now thou art come, she cried,
'Tis fled: but I thought to-day
I never could here abide,
If thou wert longer away.
'Tis fled: but I thought to-day
I never could here abide,
If thou wert longer away.
| Poetical Works of Robert Bridges excluding the eight dramas | |