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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EVENING GUEST, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poet's Biography First Line: If in the silence of this lonely eve Last Line: And then I will go back to heaven with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria | |||
IF, in the silence of this lonely eve, With the street lamp pale flickering on the wall, An angel were to whisper me, "Believe -- It shall be given thee. Call!" -- whom should I call? And then I were to see thee gliding in Clad in known garments, that with empty fold Lie in my keeping, and my fingers, thin As thine were once, to feel in thy safe hold: "I should fall weeping on thy neck and say, "I have so suffered since -- since -- " But my tears Would stop, remembering how thou count'st thy day A day that is with God a thousand years. Then what are these sad days, months, years of mine, To thine eternity of full delight? What my whole life, when myriad lives divine May wait, each leading to a higher height? I lose myself -- I faint. Beloved, best, Let me still dream, thy dear humanity Sits with me here, my head upon thy breast, And then I will go back to heaven with thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK HER LIKENESS by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK NOW AND AFTERWARDS by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK ONLY A WOMAN by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK PHILIP, MY KING by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A 'MERCENARY' MARRIAGE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A CHILD'S SMILE by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A CHRISTMAS CAROL by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A DEAD BABY by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK A DEAD SEA-GULL; NEAR LIVERPOOL by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK |
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