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Poem by Amy Levy


A Farewell


(After Heine.)


The sad rain falls from Heaven,
A sad bird pipes and sings ;
I am sitting here at my window
And watching the spires of ”King’s.”

O fairest of all fair places,
Sweetest of all sweet towns!
With the birds, and the greyness and greenness,
And the men in caps and gowns.

All they that dwell within thee,
To leave are ever loth,
For one man gets friends, and another
Gets honour, and one gets both.

The sad rain falls from Heaven;
My heart is great with woe--
I have neither a friend nor honour,
Yet I am sorry to go.



Amy Levy


Amy Levy's other poems:
  1. Borderland
  2. The First Extra
  3. Youth and Love
  4. Ballade of a Special Edition
  5. To Vernon Lee


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Alfred Tennyson A Farewell ("Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea")
  • Robert Burns A Farewell ("FAREWELL dear Friend! may guid luck hit you") 1786
  • Alfred Austin A Farewell ("Good-bye, old year, good-bye!")
  • Coventry Patmore A Farewell ("With all my will, but much against my heart")
  • Charlotte Mew A Farewell ("Remember me and smile, as smiling too")
  • Charles Kingsley A Farewell ("My fairest child, I have no song to give you")
  • George Russell A Farewell ("I GO down from the hills half in gladness, and half with a pain I depart")
  • Edith Nesbit A Farewell ("Good-bye, good-bye; it is not hard to part!")
  • Samuel Rogers A Farewell ("Once more, enchanting girl, adieu!")

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