The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
love
loss
lyric poem
melancholic
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end: She looked in my heart one day And saw your image was there; She has gone weeping away.
The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love - meaning Summary
Grief for Lost Love
A speaker remembers a close, beautiful friend and a hope that love would cure their old despair. That hope collapses when the friend discovers another person living in the speaker’s heart. The friend departs in tears, leaving the speaker to mourn both the lost intimacy and the impossibility of a returned love. The poem compresses disappointment, secrecy, and the private persistence of an image that prevents reciprocal attachment.
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