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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ONE BEYOND DEATH'S PORTALS, by ROBERT CARY
First Line: If you who loved so well the sonnet-form
Last Line: Grief's manuscript to music's lingering bar.
Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Dead, The
First Line: If you who loved so well the sonnet-form
Last Line: Grief's manuscript to music's lingering bar.
Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Dead, The
If you who loved so well the sonnet-form
Have borne that love beyond this tragic sphere
Where friendships, even our own, must disappear
Like a day's splendors thwarted by a storm,
Or as shorn roseleaves still with dewdrops warm
On June's fond breast, or as a rainbowed tear,
Or thought-miraged more darkly seen than clear,
Or clovers vanished with the honeyed swarm.
If you, I say, dear Cousin-Friend, may hold
Beyond the silver shadows of a star
Communion still with happy days and old
Companionships -- then, though you seem afar,
I shall hear once more your violin, and fold
Grief's manuscript to music's lingering bar.
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