| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| Pity |
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| OH do not Pity me because I gave | |
| My heart when lovely April with a gust, | |
| Swept down the singing lanes with a cool wave; | |
| And do not pity me because I thrust | |
| Aside your love that once burned as a flame. | 5 |
| I was as thirsty as a windy flower | |
| That bares its bosom to the summer shower | |
| And to the unremembered winds that came. | |
| Pity me most for moments yet to be, | |
| In the far years, when some day I shall turn | 10 |
| Toward this strong path up to our little door | |
| And find it barred to all my ecstasy. | |
| No sound of your warm voice the winds have borne— | |
| Only the crying sea upon the shore. | |
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