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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVANESCENT, by E. ARNTON MACDOUGALL
First Line: She will go no more on the bright waters
Last Line: They will not give her back to us.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: She will go no more on the bright waters
Last Line: They will not give her back to us.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
She will go no more on the bright waters,
With their dancing flecks of light;
She will wander no more in the garden,
Slender hands full of bloom --
Nor pause by the rainbowing fountain,
Caressing the long white hound
Who frightens the little drinking birds.
She will not return from the bright waters --
They will not give her back to us.
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