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We have walked in Love's land a little way,
We have learnt his lesson a little while,
And shall we not part at the end of day,
With a sigh, a smile?
A little while in the shine of the sun,
We were twined together, joined lips forgot
How the shadows fall when day is done,
And when Love is not.
We have made no vows - there will none be broke,
Our love was free as the wind on the hill,
There was no word said we need wish unspoke,
We have wrought no ill.
So shall we not part at the end of day,
Who have loved and lingered a little while,
Join lips for the last time, go our way,
With a sigh, a smile.
Ernest Christopher Dowson
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Michael Pruchnicki
(5/11/2009 2:57:00 PM) |
It's really incredible the blarney that's written about the past! As though people in earlier times were unaware of the power of sexual feeling! Dowson and his contemporaries wrote 'like the underground literarure of the time'? Just the opposite was doubtless true, given Poewhit's theory - and Straw's witless comment about this poem 'being a surprising poem from the Victorian era' takes the cake! Their mutual smugness about sexual intercourse in the late 20th century somehow representing the enlightened view of sexual relations as being the standard of civilization for modern men and women is the common view today!
Fellows, you ever heard tell of decadent Rome? Or read about British royalty in the 17th century? And Shakespeare's sonnets and his plays dealt with all kinds of affairs between the sexes! Victorian writers included the likes of Wilde and others who wrote vividly of sex in the raw. American writers have always scribbled about life in the darker realms of sex!
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JOSEPH POEWHIT
(5/11/2009 11:52:00 AM) |
The poem is very liberal for the time era. People were still church conscious and conscious of the writings.Reading was the past time, To touch a hand in a novel was very bold and considered a true act of love. Kissing is unheard of in writings less any further advances in that era or earlier. This in perspective, would have been like underground literature of the time.
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Kevin Straw
(5/11/2009 7:52:00 AM) |
This is one-day as opposed to a one-night stand (I interpret 'We were twined together...' as sexual intercourse) .
Dowson speaks of an hour or two's sex in the sunshine as being genuinely an act of Love, from which something was learnt.
It is a surprising poem from the Victorian era. Not that they weren't capable of these things, but to speak of them publicly was unusual I think. It is a poem about 'free' love.
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Michael Harmon
(5/11/2009 1:09:00 AM) |
This may or may not be considered one of Dowson's best. However, he was one of the 19th Century masters of the unrequited love poem. His 'Cynara' is one of the masterpieces of the era.
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A.a. Flow
(5/11/2007 11:32:00 PM) |
A cloying Victorian doo-dad. Pass the mouthwash...
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Hadeer Ali
(5/11/2006 9:42:00 AM) |
beautiful, sensetive poem i like ' shall we not part at the end of day'
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Nancy Vorkink
(5/11/2006 9:02:00 AM) |
A nice little ditty.
Free love may not be so free.
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