Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A LONELY HOUSE, by A. HARDY HETH


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A LONELY HOUSE, by                    
First Line: I dreamed last night there were no / broken hearts
Last Line: I'd dream forever that there were no broken hearts.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Male-female Relations; Loneliness


I DREAMED last night there were no broken hearts—
A lonely house is good to wanderers
And the tall trees whispered lullabies beneath the moon.
With lights turned low I saw the sea afoam
Flash pale behind the tossing, sighing limbs,
While just below a dew-strewn path led toward the beach.
My eyes were closing when your voice rang soft
And laughed—"I came to blow your candles out,"
Then darkness, silence, but your presence in the dark.

Sometime when restless wandering is o'er,
And I am all too tired for a dawn,
I'd like to lie there with my face turned toward the sea;
Your laughing voice for music, quiet eyes—
Your eyes above me; then in lasting dark
I'd dream forever that there were no broken hearts.





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