Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing Poem by James Joyce

Gentle Lady, Do Not Sing

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Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.

Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.

James Joyce
Friday, January 3, 2003
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Resh Kav 22 June 2017

some thing different in s stanzas

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Kim Barney 04 February 2015

Certainly not one of his better poems, in my opinion.

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