Please, Leave Me Alone...

Leave me alone. I would not see thee more. The storm is hushed, the agony is o'er. I would not feel again. The passion and the pain. Do not again come knocking at my door.

Leave me alone. Put not into my hand
A broken cup, though bound with golden band, Lest I with thirsty lip. Once more its passions sip. Still let it lie, all shattered on the sand.

Leave me alone. I followed, long ago,
Joy to its tomb, with tolling marches slow. Wake not my buried slain, Only to die again. Leave me to peace___'tis all I hope to know.

Leave me alone. I may not quite forget
The buried love, whose sweetness thrills me yet; But let the willow wave; Rake not a grass-grown grave;
Break not the turf, for fresh-rung tears to wet.