Is there a bitter pang for love removed, <br />O God! The dead love doth not cost more tears <br />Than the alive, the loving, the beloved— <br />Not yet, not yet beyond all hopes and fears! <br />Would I were laid <br />Under the shade <br />Of the calm grave, and the long grass of years,— <br /> <br />That love might die with sorrow:—I am sorrow; <br />And she, that loves me tenderest, doth press <br />Most poison from my cruel lips, and borrow <br />Only new anguish from the old caress; <br />Oh, this world's grief <br />Hath no relief <br /> <br />In being wrung from a great happiness. <br />Would I had never filled thine eyes with love, <br />For love is only tears: would I had never <br />Breathed such a curse-like blessing as we prove; <br />Now, if 'Farewell' could bless thee, I would sever! <br />Would I were laid <br />Under the shade <br />Of the cold tomb, and the long grass forever!<br /><br />Thomas Hood<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/is-there-a-bitter-pang-for-love-removed/
