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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT THE GRAVE OF HEINE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poet's Biography
First Line: South-heart of song / in winter drest
Last Line: Through whose high morn the bird sings on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: South-heart of song / in winter drest
Last Line: Through whose high morn the bird sings on.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
SOUTH-HEART of song
In winter drest,
Death mends thy wrong;
That is life's best.
Bird, who didst sing
From a bare bough,
Call, and what Spring
Will answer now!
And haste with her
Bud-legacy,—
O, not to share,
To take of thee!
Thy night, slow, dark,
Yet song-lit shone,
Till who did hark
Missed not the moon;
When morning found
Thy cold, pierced breast,
'Twas she who moaned,
To thy thorn pressed.
Here lies the thorn-wound of the dawn
Through whose high morn the bird sings on.
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