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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GIVE ME NOT TEARS: DESPAIR, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, when you see my grave
Last Line: Death is the gentlest of the world's replies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary
Subject(s): Despair
First Line: Dear, when you see my grave
Last Line: Death is the gentlest of the world's replies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary
Subject(s): Despair
DEAR, when you see my grave,
Oh, shall you weep?
Ah, no! That were to have
Mistaken care;
But when you see my grave,
I pray you keep
Sunshine of heart that time doth lay me there,
Where veiling mists of dream guard endless sleep.
Though the young life we mourn
That, blooming, dies, --
Ere grief hath made forlorn
This other face, --
Still sadder are the eyes,
The cheeks more worn
Than show the dead, of those who seek love's grace;
Death is the gentlest of the world's replies.
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