328. The Sentimentalist by James Elroy Flecker
b'JE Flecker read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Sentimentalist\\nby James Elroy Flecker (1884 \\u2013 1915)\\n\\nThere lies a photograph of you\\n Deep in a box of broken things.\\nThis was the face I loved and knew\\n Five years ago, when life had wings;\\n\\nFive years ago, when through a town\\n Of bright and soft and shadowy bowers\\nWe walked and talked and trailed our gown\\n Regardless of the cinctured hours.\\n\\nThe precepts that we held I kept;\\n Proudly my ways with you I went:\\nWe lived our dreams while others slept,\\n And did not shrink from sentiment.\\n\\nNow I go East and you stay West\\n And when between us Europe lies\\nI shall forget what I loved best\\n Away from lips and hands and eyes.\\n\\nBut we were Gods then: we were they\\n Who laughed at fools, believed in friends,\\nAnd drank to all that golden day\\n Before us, which this poem ends.\\n\\nFirst aired: 22 August 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'