Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GHOST, by HERMANN HAGEDORN


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THE GHOST, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One whom I loved and never can forget
Last Line: She shook her head bewildered, and was gone.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


One whom I loved and never can forget
Returned to me in dream, and spoke with me,
As audibly, as sweet familiarly
As though warm fingers twined warm fingers yet.
Her eyes were bright and with great wonder wet
As in old days when some strange, swift decree
Brought touch-close love or death; and sorrow-free
She spoke as one long purged of all regret.
I heard, oh, glad beyond all speech, I heard,
Till to my lips the flaming query flashed:
How is it -- over there? Then, quite undone,
She trembled; in her deep eyes like a bird
The gladness fluttered, and as one abashed
She shook her head bewildered, and was gone.





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