English poem
Poem 210 (The lasting stone would mock thy…)
by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
The lasting stone would mock thy brief lament Witness thy short affection over long, The steadfast words thy changing passion wrong, The painted features cry "Repent! repent!"
Live and forget me. Farewell! Better so, Than that I should be made the scorn of men, Who mark the pageantry of grief, the show Of feeling lighter than the wind, and then, With lifted eyebrows, smile and whisper "Lo! A year is past, Admetus weds again!"
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