by Poe · Cluster: Unrequited Frustrated Love · Unattainable Beloved · Petrarchan Sonnet
Abstract
A brief love lyric in which the speaker, indifferent to his own desolate lot, is moved that the beloved should sorrow for a mere passer-by. Themes of love, melancholy and transience.
Connections
Motifs: Love Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love, Melancholy, Transience Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath-little of Earth in it—
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute:—
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer-by.
1829.