The Corsair: Farewell
The Corsair: Farewell - meaning Summary
Farewell as Resigned Love
Byron's short lyric expresses resigned farewell after a doomed love. The speaker suppresses outward grief—lips mute, eyes dry—while interior pangs persist and memory refuses sleep. Repetition of the parting word compresses sorrow into a haunting, final address. The poem stresses inward suffering, devotion that endures beyond expression, and the paradox of silent strength masking passionate loss. It reflects personal experience of separation and unfulfilled attachment.
Read Complete AnalysesFarewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal availed on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky, 'Twere vain to speak, to weep, to sigh: Oh! more than tears of blood can tell, When wrung from guilt's expiring eye, Are in that word—Farewell!—Farewell! These lips are mute, these eyes are dry; But in my breast, and in my brain, Awake the pangs that pass not by, The thought that ne'er shall sleep again. My soul nor deigns nor dares complain, Though grief and passion there rebel; I only know we loved in vain— I only feel—Farewell!—Farewell!
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