Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LAMENT, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON


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First Line: We who are left, how shall we look again
Last Line: Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?
Subject(s): Peace; World War I; First World War


We who are left, how shall we look again
Happily on the sun or feel the rain
Without remembering how they who went
Ungrudgingly and spent
Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and the rain?

A bird among the rain-wet lilac sings—
But we, how shall we turn to little things
And listen to the birds and winds and streams
Made holy by their dreams,
Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?





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