Stanzas: Is There A Bitter Pang For Love Removed

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Title:     Stanzas: Is There A Bitter Pang For Love Removed
Author: Thomas Hood [More Titles by Hood]

[Note: Assigned by Hood's son to the year 1835, but apparently only on conjecture.]

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!

[The end]
Thomas Hood's poem: Stanzas: Is There A Bitter Pang For Love Removed

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