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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STILLED VOICE, by FERNAND GREGH Poet's Biography
First Line: The fountain in my garden
Last Line: Of a moan. ...
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence; Dead, The
First Line: The fountain in my garden
Last Line: Of a moan. ...
Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence; Dead, The
The fountain in my garden,
That sobbed
Like a sorrowing soul
Unendingly,
Died to-night,
And is still ....
And the mad wind
That flouted her
And tore her tinted veil,
Now mingles his sighing whisper
With the silence of her tomb.
In other days
The ceaseless falling
Of her tears
Drop by drop
Sounded clear
Through the trees,
Now the water,
Like a lake
Of voiceless sobs,
Lies dead and still ....
Yet her sorrow is not dead:
Hush!
Methinks I hear
The last faint echo
Of a moan. ...
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