Farewell

Farewell, Aziz, it was not mine to fold you

Against my heart for any length of days.

I had no loveliness, alas, to hold you,

No siren voice, no charm that lovers praise.

Yet, in the midst of grief and desolation,

Solace I my despairing soul with this:

Once, for my life’s eternal consolation,

You lent my lips your loveliness to kiss.

Ah, that one night! I think Love’s very essence

Distilled itself from out my joy and pain,

Like tropical trees, whose fervid inflorescence

Glows, gleams, and dies, never to bloom again.

Often I marvel how I met the morning

With living eyes after that night with you,

Ah, how I cursed the wan, white light for dawning,

And mourned the paling stars, as each withdrew!

Yet I, even I, who am less than dust before you,

Less than the lowest lintel of your door,

Was given one breathless midnight, to adore you.

Fate, having granted this, can give no more!

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Poems in English 

• The Old Maids Story by Ada Cambridge
• The Night by Ada Cambridge
• The Mob by Ada Cambridge
• The Midnight Mass by Ada Cambridge
• The Magic Wand by Ada Cambridge
• The Legend Of Lady Gertrude by Ada Cambridge
• The Last Battle Of The Cid by Ada Cambridge
• The Kind Word by Ada Cambridge
• The Hands That Hang Down by Ada Cambridge
• The Hand In The Dark by Ada Cambridge
• The Future Verdict by Ada Cambridge
• The Easter Decorations by Ada Cambridge
• The Dawn by Ada Cambridge
• The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath by Ada Cambridge
• The Crown Of Thorns by Ada Cambridge
• The Coo Of The Cushat by Ada Cambridge
• The Candle Of The Lord by Ada Cambridge
• The Baptistry by Ada Cambridge
• Sic Vos Non Vobis by Ada Cambridge
• Seed Time And Harvest by Ada Cambridge

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