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Unrequited Love Poems

Table of Contents

  1. Unrequited Love by Hulda Fetzer
  2. A Broken Chain by Annie Armstrong
  3. Embers by Floyd Meredith
  4. Love Me At Last by Alice Corbin Henderson
  5. Bedouin Love Song by Bayard Taylor

  1. Unrequited Love

    by Hulda Fetzer

    I never can love him, though he worships me,
    And though he would fall at my shrine;
    I never can love him, so what is the use
    To torture this poor heart of mine.

    So I must refuse him; but let it be gentle,
    And kindly I'll bid him to go,
    And seek him another who is more worthy,
    For I am unloving, I know.

    My love is too trifling when measured with his,
    My heart, it wants to be free;
    And so I will bid him good-by for the last time,
    And tell him to forget one so fickle as me.

  2. A Broken Chain

    by Annie Armstrong

    My friend, I've searched my heart, as you have prayed me,
    And find all calm and cold its depths within;
    My fate with thine can never be united,
    And yet—this might have been.

    A year ago, the words within this letter
    Had made the rushing tides of joy begin
    To flow through every vein—and now—I wonder
    That e'er it could have been.

    I chide you not, nor do I wish to blame you,
    Because you cared another heart to win;
    I even thank you that you broke your fetters,
    And that this has not been.

    I cannot tell in what mysterious manner
    In peace subsided all the heart's wild din;
    I only know this cannot now be, ever,
    Although it might have been.

  3. Embers

    by Floyd Meredith

    Slowly burns the fire, its hot wrath spent,
    While over the gray ashes creeps a chill;
    For all the room is silent since you went,
    And still;

    I could not hope to keep you for alway,
    Love's source was drained, it could not stand the test;
    And yet, like threads of flame, my memories sway,
    Rise up and will not rest.

    'Twas such a trifle that aroused distrust,
    And took your hands from mine, biding me go,
    Yet all the while I knelt here in the dust,
    And loved you so;

    But oh, tonight, just touch my lips, and lean
    Your head upon my breast, and let us be
    As we once were ere doubting came between
    The Me and Thee;

    The embers dully glow, and through the grate
    The hot coals drop into a cool retreat;
    Be mine again! Fain would I laugh at Fate . . .
    And kiss your feet.

  4. Love Me At Last

    by Alice Corbin Henderson

    Love me at last, or if you will not,
    Leave me;
    Hard words could never, as these half-words,
    Grieve me:
    Love me at last—or leave me.

    Love me at last, or let the last word uttered
    Be but your own;
    Love me, or leave me—as a cloud, a vapor,
    Or a bird flown.
    Love me at last—I am but sliding water
    Over a stone.

  5. Bedouin Love Song

    by Bayard Taylor

    From the Desert I come to thee
    On a stallion shod with fire;
    And the winds are left behind
    In the speed of my desire.
    Under thy window I stand,
    And the midnight hears my cry:
    I love thee, I love but thee,
    With a love that shall not die
    Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment
    Book unfold!

    Look from thy window and see
    My passion and my pain;
    I lie on the sands below,
    And I faint in thy disdain.
    Let the night-winds touch thy brow
    With the heat of my burnings sigh,
    And melt thee to hear the vow
    Of a love that shall not die
    Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment
    Book unfold!

    My steps are nightly driven,
    By the fever in my breast,
    To hear from thy lattice breathed
    The word that shall give me rest.
    Open the door of thy heart,
    And open thy chamber door,
    And my kisses shall teach thy lips
    The love that shall fade no more
    Till the sun grows cold,
    And the stars are old,
    And the leaves of the Judgment
    Book unfold!

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