«Bound for your far-off native shore / From alien lands you went away; / I shall remember evermore / The tears I shed upon that day. / My hands grew colder as they tried / To keep you from forsaking me; / “End not,” my soul to Heaven cried, / “The parting’s dreadful agony!” B...»
«For the last time I risk caresses / In fancy on your darling face. / To waken dreams my strong heart presses. / And softly, shy of its distresses, / Your love for me it would retrace. Our life is hurrying and changes; / Everything changes; we change too; / And him, whose song through pa...»
«I thought my heart had lost the power / Of suffering love’s gentle pain: / I said, "The past, the fleeting hour / Comes not again, comes not again. "They’ve gone, the raptures and the longing. / The flattering dreams that shone so bright. . . ." / But as I spoke, they came back throng...»
«I loved you once, and in my soul maybe / Love is not altogether dead to-day. / But you shall not be troubled more by me / I would not sadden you in any way. / I loved you silently and hopelessly, / Worn now with jealousy and now with shame; / I loved so truly and so tenderly, — / God...»