 | To Elizabeth Barrett Browning and other verses |  |
8
ON LEAVING MY VILLA
I gaze with fond regret on you,
My cypresses, so green and tall,
And sweet acacian avenue,
Because I nursed and rear'd you all.
My cypresses, so green and tall,
And sweet acacian avenue,
Because I nursed and rear'd you all.
On you with fond regret I gaze,
My hall, with vine-leaves trelliced o'er,
Because I've seen you many days,
And never am to see you more.
My hall, with vine-leaves trelliced o'er,
Because I've seen you many days,
And never am to see you more.
I gaze on you with fond regret,
My children! for you may be told
That love (like mine, too!) can forget—
Only with death does love lie cold.
My children! for you may be told
That love (like mine, too!) can forget—
Only with death does love lie cold.
| To Elizabeth Barrett Browning and other verses | |