POEMS 1814-1816. FAREWELL! IF EVER FONDEST PRAYER. I. FAREWELL! if ever fondest prayer But waft thy name beyond the sky. 2. These lips are mute, these eyes are dry; The thought that ne'er shall sleep again. I only feel-Farewell!-Farewell! [First published, Corsair, Second Edition, 1814.] 1. [Compare The Corsair, Canto I. stanza xv. lines 480-490.] WHEN WE TWO PARTED. I. WHEN we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy cheek and cold, Colder thy kiss; Sorrow to this. 2. The dew of the morning ii. Sunk chill on my brow It felt like the warning I hear thy name spoken, 3.iv. They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear; i. Never may I behold Moment like this.—[MS.] ii. The damp of the morning Clung chill on my brow.-[MS. erased.] iii. Thy vow hath been broken.-[MS.] Our secret of sorrow— And deep in my soul- But never forgot.-[Erasures, stanza 3, MS.] A shudder comes o'er me- Who knew thee too well:- 4. In secret we met In silence I grieve, After long years, How should I greet thee?— With silence and tears. [First published, Poems, 1816.] [LOVE AND GOLD.1] I. I CANNOT talk of Love to thee, Though thou art young and free and fair! i. If one should meet thee How should we greet thee? In silence and tears.-[MS.] I. [From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. Murray, now for the first time printed. The water-mark of the paper on which a much-tortured rough copy of these lines has been scrawled, is 1809, but, with this exception, there is no hint as to the date of composition. An entry in the Diary for November 30, 1813, in which Annabella (Miss Milbanke) is described "as an heiress, a girl of twenty, a peeress that is to be," etc., and a letter (Byron to Miss Milbanke) dated November 29, 1813 (see Letters, 1898, ii. 357, and 1899, iii. 407), |