Today's
Love Poem
Today's Poem
Perhaps, long hence, when I have pass'd away,Some other's feature, accent, thought like mine,Will carry you back to what I used to say,And bring some memory of your love's decline.Then you may pause awhile and think, 'Poor jade!'And yield a sigh to me--as ample due,Not as the tittle of a debt unpaidTo one who could resign her all to you--
And thus reflecting, you will never seeThat your thin thought, in two small words convey'd,Was no such fleeting phantom-thought to me,But the Whole Life wherin my part was play'd;And you amid its fitful masqueradeA Thought--as I in yours but seem to be.