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The Mistress Found


This poem was inspired by Robert Browning's "The Lost Mistress". Hope you enjoy!













Was it all but a tender dream
that hence I have awakened from?
More than simply this it did seem.
Yet bittersweet parting is the sum.

Would that the beauty of a rose
last more than but an hour.
For as quickly as love grows
it dies as does yon flower.

Could but that emotion ever remain
and multiply more each day.
Yet it dwindles with every passing rain
until exhausted it fades away.

Still I can scarce bring myself to believe
the passion dies upon the vine.
Let me dwell in fantasies I might conceive
that this perfect love is mine.







so TrIcK it is
"Now be still"





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