Is There A Bitter Pang For Love Removed
Thomas Hood 1799 (London) – 1845 (London)
Is there a bitter pang for love removed,
O God! The dead love doth not cost more tears
Than the alive, the loving, the beloved—
Not yet, not yet beyond all hopes and fears!
Would I were laid
Under the shade
Of the calm grave, and the long grass of years,—
That love might die with sorrow:—I am sorrow;
And she, that loves me tenderest, doth press
Most poison from my cruel lips, and borrow
Only new anguish from the old caress;
Oh, this world's grief
Hath no relief
In being wrung from a great happiness.
Would I had never filled thine eyes with love,
For love is only tears: would I had never
Breathed such a curse-like blessing as we prove;
Now, if 'Farewell' could bless thee, I would sever!
Would I were laid
Under the shade
Of the cold tomb, and the long grass forever!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xxxaBBa cdcdee xxfxfBBf |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 151 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 8 |
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