Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEFORE THE TEARS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE


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BEFORE THE TEARS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You looked as sad as an eclipsed moon
Last Line: So thrust my hand in yours and shook farewell.
Subject(s): Farewell; Pain; Tears; Parting; Suffering; Misery


YOU looked as sad as an eclipsed moon
Above the sheaves of harvest, and there lay
A light lisp on your tongue, and very soon
The petals of your deep blush fell away;
White smiles that come with an uneasy grace
From inner sorrow crossed your forehead fair,
When the wind passing took your scattered hair
And flung it like a brown shower in my face.

Tear-fringed winds that fill the heart's low sighs
And never break upon the bosom's pain,
But blow unto the windows of the eyes
Their misty promises of silver rain,
Around your loud heart ever rose and fell.
I thought 'twere better that the tears should come
And strike your every feeling wholly numb,
So thrust my hand in yours and shook farewell.





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