My Heart is Lame
Charlotte Mary Mew 1869 (Bloomsbury, London) – 1928 (London)
My heart is lame with running after yours so fast
Such a long way,
Shall we walk slowly home, looking at all the things we passed
Perhaps to-day?
Home down the quiet evening roads under the quiet skies,
Not saying much,
You for a moment giving me your eyes
When you could bear my touch.
But not to-morrow. This has taken all my breath;
Then, though you look the same,
There may be something lovelier in Love's face in death
As your heart sees it, running back the way we came;
My heart is lame.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 492 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
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