George Gordon Byron

ON PARTING

The kiss, dear maid! thy lip has left
Shall never part from mine
Till happier hourse restore the glift
Untainted back to thine.

Thy parting glance, which fondly beams,
And equal love may see:
The tear from thine eye lid streams
Can weep no change in me.

I ask no pledge to make me blest
In gazing when alone;
Nor one memorial for a breast,
Whose thoughts are all thine own.

Nor need I write - to tell the tale
My pen were doubly weak:
Oh! What can idle words avail,
Unless the heart could speak?

By day or night, in weal or woe,
That heart, no longer free,
Must bear the love it cannot show,
And silent ache for thee.