1d
I say in love farewell.
I shared in love to you,
My thoughts and all my feelings,
Words my dreams outgrew.
I saw your beauty with eyes
That pity a blind man’s fate
For missing your heart’s radiance
That I will never shake.
I speak of twenty Helens,
Props to Marlowe and Poe,
But nothing else can match
The beauty with you I knew.
I shared in love to you,
My thoughts and all my feelings,
Words my dreams outgrew.
I saw your beauty with eyes
That pity a blind man’s fate
For missing your heart’s radiance
That I will never shake.
I speak of twenty Helens,
Props to Marlowe and Poe,
But nothing else can match
The beauty with you I knew.
Interesting that it is sad but also light hearted. Is it saying I really don’t believe what I am saying?
The slant rhyme of 'knew' vs using the obvious rhyme of 'know' denotes a sadness with deviation from perfection.
The poet is attempting to reflect on a love affair that did not work out, and he was very sad at the time, but in retrospect it worked out just fine, as she would not have been a good life partner. Seeing how they both turned out they would not have been compatible.
Two great people just not great together.
The slant rhyme of 'knew' vs using the obvious rhyme of 'know' denotes a sadness with deviation from perfection.
The poet is attempting to reflect on a love affair that did not work out, and he was very sad at the time, but in retrospect it worked out just fine, as she would not have been a good life partner. Seeing how they both turned out they would not have been compatible.
Two great people just not great together.
(M/South Carolina)
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