When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow--
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame;
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shrudder comes o'er me--
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee so well--
Long, long I shall rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.
In secret we met—
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?--
With silence and tears.
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Cheaters
From guest Candy H. (contact)
By: Candy H. This poem is the best. It's exactly the way I feel. Just put in better words. -
Beautifully sad. I love that last stanza.
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Love old love poems
This one just tore my heart as it touch me in a way I had long forgotten.
Old love never really goes away. His mom was a Gordon and my Maiden name so I can connect with him. Love his poems. -
From guest Ellie (contact)
I love this poem its so cool but short i wish it was longer if any one is prepared to make the own up and put it on this comment bored make it kind of long but similiar plz i love poems and would love to read em!
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I thought that this poem was deeply touching in every single way. I liked the rhyme pattern (a,b,a,b) it fit well with the poem which made it flow nicely. Very touching and heartfelt. I enjoyed this even though it was pretty sad indeed.
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This one, really touches me deeply! I love old poetry, and this one well, really fits me now.......
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Classique
From guest George, Lord Byron (contact)
The melancholic sense of sadness and honesty is beautiful. -
from a lover of poems
i surely do love this poem very much, am so amazed by its beauty -
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true
From guest Nicky1108 (contact)
how this made me cry...it's exactly how i left....in silence and tears. I am reminded that I am not the first, nor will I be the last. What wonderful, ancient wording. -
When?
Very nice rhyming. we always greet our loved ones with silence and tears when we meet them
After long years.Silence conveys the message tears take the message to the right person. -
beauty denied
From guest mansoor alam (contact)
the poem is great!it is passionate,emotional and heart-rendering.the tragedy of this excellent poem is that it could have been more improved.that is to say,it could have been made immortal had byron not included the specific reference to his love. -
From guest Robin (contact)
I love the flow and rhyme in this poem..and the emotion behind it is wonderful.. -
Wow
From guest Paigee (contact)
This poem has alot of meaning behind it. & it reall opened my mind. I used to hate poetry. -
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in silence i grieve
From guest its me (contact)
is it reality feeling to those who struggle in relationship not work,its better to be parted than to stay together,liberate the rancored feeling inside cause of hurting each other, i love this poem nice one -
In Secret We Met
From guest Jerimiah S. (contact)
I have always been a fan of his poetry, and this is one of my favorites. I'm a romantic guy, so this strikes my fancy. -
In Secret We Met
From guest Jody Bodhi (contact)
I was 12 when I first found this poem. A girl of 12 crushing on another girl. So confusing. I noticed at the time that gender was not applied in this poem and it was 'in secret we met'. "Thy spirit deceive". I have noticed many responders to this poem have assumed opposite sex roles....but think about it in same gender roles...."How shall I greet thee? With silence and tears." -
Love Disrespected
From guest Golden (contact)
I love in this poem the sentiment that he carries with him. He laments the love lost, but mostly he grieves the disrespect his lover shows to their past love. He pains at the mention os his lover's name in situation that speak ill of their love's memory since "Thy vows are all broken, And light is thy fame". His memories are pure, but her "light fame" now has stained what he cherished so deep and he agonizes how he will behave were he to meet her again. Just beautiful... -
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another view of this
From guest laura (contact)
I was studying this for my GCSE course and found a slightly different view to it and although i try to shake it i cant seem to believe it any other way now. what if the women in this poem has just died. the first stanza could be them braking up and the second he starts feeling unwell like he knows some how deep down that somethings wrong . it all makes perfect sense the use of the word knell especially a knell is a solemn bell rung at funerals or after someone dies the question thats answer is a decider of what this poem is actually about is was the knell used in a mental sense or as a physical object. -
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need help
From guest Samantha (contact)
I have to put this poem in to lamiens terms.. and theres NO way i can figure out a couple stanzas.. So if annnyyyy one on here is looking at this .. Please comment this page. -
From guest jimbob (contact)
im sorry to birst the bubble but this is a sulky arragont man spitefully hitting out at a women that is hurting as much if not more than him. -
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From guest kt (contact)
i like this poem..... too bad i cant meet the author. i will greet him in heaven with silenece and tears... -
With silence and tears.
From guest THRESSS (contact)
I LOVE THIS POEM CAME ACROSS IT YEARS AGO. THE LAST PARAGRAPH CAPTURE A MOMENT IN MY LIFE PERFECTLY, AND NOT IT IS WHAT I USE WHEN I FEEL LIKE A LOVED ONE IS SLIPPING AWAY... -
My eyes could not hold them for long ...
From guest Wahab (contact)
This is so very touching that i was unable to hold my emotions .....Tears kept rolling as i read each para .... the question at the end of this marvelous poem left me thinking as to what can be the answer ....each word has so much to say .. I wish Byron would have given an answer to his question ..... -
i will always be a great fan of byron
From guest priya (contact)
what lines....damnnnn...tuches the soul truly madly deeply....tears flow as i browse thru them......great piece of work....truly awesum -
From guest Megan Baillie (contact)
great poem shows the love and seperation in the relationship extremly well written -
From guest rhondasail (contact)
Favorite lines: Long, long shall I rue thee, too deeply to tell" and "In silence I grieve, that thy heart could forget". Such grief cannot be forgotten, unless it was never truly felt in the first place. Only the author 'knows' this grief and he speaks to it so well. "How shall I greet thee? With silence and tears". The love is not gone from him, only now, it causes pain instead of joy. I have always loved Byron. -
When we two parted
From guest Dan Negrut (contact)
I have discovered this poem as a student and I have kept it with me over the years first on a piece of paper that becam shredded with time, the I have carried it in my heart and in my mind. I think it is a poem speaking about unity and separation within the couple, about the overwhelming silence of the couple which has experienced the death of emotion pointed from the very first stanza by the silence and the tears. What are tears if not the external manifestation of inner grief, of dying love ? It is a poem vacillating painfully between past and present, between despair and hope. The dew of the morning in the second stanza (highly antiromantic element by the way) comes to be symbolically associated with the tears in the first stanza. Whereas the lover in the first stanza cries his tears for the death of emotion, the dew could be interpreted as the symbolical tears the morning cries for the death of night. Night, on the other hand, is the time preferred by the romantics, as it is a time of passion, of love and sin, whereas morning brings about Law, morality, understanding and clarity (sunk chill on my brow). The rest of the poem... some other time. If you are interested in my opinion, contact me. -
I never quite liked Byron as much as everyone else around me. I always thought I knew the reason, but recently I began to doubt that. This poem made me change my mind ... and heart. I'm not for such poetry but this is without a doubt one of the deepest and truest poems ever written.
The best in this poem are the lines from 29 to 32.
Why? If ever you should expirience that, you will understand ... -
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This poem by Byron is most likely my favorite. It shows so much emotions, especially sadness. I know that anyone with a broken heart feels the same way, and Byron used his skill to put it in pen.
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melted my soul
I felt like i was living his sadness,this is poetry.
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one of Lord Byron's best poems. emotional.
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I want to say more about this piece, because I feel my last comment did it no justice. I use this poem as my killer in speech (yeah, me a killer in speech-ha, but it has given me my 1's). I love the emotion that the words bring, and the different ways I can minipulate the flow and rythem. The words and descriptions are set-up in a way that leaves much room for interpertation on how to read it; I love that. And I feel kind of glum when I read this, for love can cause that feeling very easily:
"In secret we met-
In silence I grieve"
Those are some powerful words- it's heartbreaking kind of... I love this poem with a passion, and like I said before, 'suggest it to everyone!!!' -
This might be my favorite poem to read, especially out-loud. The words of Lord Byron are so well put that the emotion is easy to find and express. This is poetry at it's finest; suggest it to all!
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" They knew not who knew thee, who knew thee so well.." these great words of this classic poem have rung in my memory, and one of the reasons for my great love affair with poetry.
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"In secret we met--
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?--
With silence and tears."
This is indeed a very nice emotional expression_____ with silence and tears, but some thing more I would like to add._______ with LOVE, an everlasting ecstasy.
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It's wonderful how Byron fits so much in those tense, short lines. A great poem. Just imagine someone's kiss going cold on your lips... And it would not be the same without the lyrical form.
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I have been in love with the poem titled, "when we two parted..." by the famous poet of the 18th century, Lord George Byron. This is by far the deepest, warmest, coldest poem I have ever read or even heard about. Everyone should read this and sit and think on it for awhile and you'll see what I mean.
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I loved this one excellet write!
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This has been one of my favorite poems for years....
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