Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904. | | | | I. Disappointment in Love | | To a Portrait | | Arthur Symons (1865–1945) |
| | | A PENSIVE photograph | |
| Watches me from the shelf— | |
| Ghost of old love, and half | |
| Ghost of myself! | |
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| How the dear waiting eyes | 5 |
| Watch me and love me yet— | |
| Sad home of memories, | |
| Her waiting eyes! | |
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| Ghost of old love, wronged ghost, | |
| Return: though all the pain | 10 |
| Of all once loved, long lost, | |
| Come back again. | |
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| Forget not, but forgive! | |
| Alas, too late I cry. | |
| We are two ghosts that had their chance to live, | 15 |
| And lost it, she and I. | | | | |
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