She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.

The speaker recalls a woman who departs without looking back—“unremembering”—while he remains marked by the ache her leaving awakens. The “pang” is not only this single separation but a compounded sorrow: it gathers up the grief of past farewells (“partings gone”) and anticipates future losses (“partings yet to be”). Thompson’s lines compress a psychology of abandonment in which one departure reactivates an entire history of separations and makes the future feel pre-lost. The quiet repetition (“She went… She went…”) mimics the inevitability of leaving and the helplessness of the one left behind.