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Thomas Hood - "Is There A Bitter Pang For Love Removed"
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Is there a bitter pang for love removed, 
O God! The dead love doth not cost more tears 
Than the alive, the loving, the beloved— 
Not yet, not yet beyond all hopes and fears! 
Would I were laid 
Under the shade 
Of the calm grave, and the long grass of years,—

That love might die with sorrow:—I am sorrow; 
And she, that loves me tenderest, doth press 
Most poison from my cruel lips, and borrow 
Only new anguish from the old caress; 
Oh, this world`s grief 
Hath no relief

In being wrung from a great happiness. 
Would I had never filled thine eyes with love, 
For love is only tears: would I had never 
Breathed such a curse-like blessing as we prove; 
Now, if "Farewell" could bless thee, I would sever! 
Would I were laid 
Under the shade 
Of the cold tomb, and the long grass forever!
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