My Secret. (From The French Of Felix Arvers)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 (Portland) – 1882 (Cambridge)



My soul its secret hath, my life too hath its mystery,
A love eternal in a moment's space conceived;
Hopeless the evil is, I have not told its history,
And she who was the cause nor knew it nor believed.
Alas! I shall have passed close by her unperceived,
For ever at her side and yet for ever lonely,
I shall unto the end have made life's journey, only
Daring to ask for nought, and having nought received.

For her, though God hath made her gentle and endearing,
She will go on her way distraught and without hearing
These murmurings of love that round her steps ascend,
Piously faithful still unto her austere duty,
Will say, when she shall read these lines full of her beauty,
Who can this woman be? and will not comprehend.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABBAAB CCDAAD
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 722
Words 137
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. more…

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