A Quoi Bon Dire
Charlotte Mew * Track #17 On AS and A-Level English Literature Anthology: Love Poetry Throughout The Ages
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Album AS and A-Level English Literature Anthology: Love Poetry Throughout The Ages
- #1Whoso List to Hunt
Thomas Wyatt
- #2
Sonnet 116William Shakespeare
- #3The Flea
John Donne
- #4To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
- #5
The ScrutinyRichard Lovelace
- #6Song: Absent From Thee
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
- #7
The Garden of LoveWilliam Blake
- #8Song (Ae fond kiss)
Robert Burns
- #9She Walks in Beauty
Lord Byron
- #10
RememberChristina Rossetti
- #11
The Ruined MaidThomas Hardy
- #12At An Inn
Thomas Hardy
- #13La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats
- #14
Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno CynaraeErnest Dowson
- #15I, being born a woman and distressed (Sonnet XLI)
Edna St. Vincent Millay
- #16
Love and a QuestionRobert Frost
- #17A Quoi Bon Dire
Charlotte Mew
- #18One Flesh
Elizabeth Jennings
- #19Meeting Point
Louis MacNeice
- #20For My Lover, Returning To His Wife
Anne Sexton
- #21
Wild OatPhilip Larkin
- #22Talking in Bed - The Whitsun Weddings
Philip Larkin
- #23
PunishmentSeamus Heaney
- #24Vergissmeinnicht
Keith Douglas
- #25Timer
Tony Harrison
- #26The Love Poem
Carol Ann Duffy
- #27Long Finish
Paul Muldoon
- #28
After the LunchWendy Cope
A Quoi Bon Dire by Charlotte Mew
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This is a gentle poem about lost love and ageing. The speaker has memories of a lover and their subsequent parting through death. She herself is now growing old. Her perceptions of the relationship are special to her and the person she loved, the relationship unique in her mind, just as the young lo...
A Quoi Bon Dire Annotated
Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;
And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.
So I, as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say Good-bye too;
And everybody sees that I am old
But you.
And one fine morning in a sunny lane
Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear
That nobody can love their way again
While over there
You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair.
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A Quoi Bon Dire was written by Charlotte Mew.