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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: O mother, listen!
Last Line: This beautiful aching?
Subject(s): Memory; Past
First Line: O mother, listen!
Last Line: This beautiful aching?
Subject(s): Memory; Past
O MOTHER, listen!
Was I once a bird?
Did my bright wings glisten?
Have I ever heard,
When the dusk was falling,
The clear, far note
Of another bird, calling?
O listen, mother!
Was I once a bee?
Sometime or other
Was life to me
Just a purple clover,
With glow-worm stars
When day was over?
O mother, hold me!
What have I been
That you have not told me?
What have I seen,
'Twixt a dream and waking,
That has left in my heart
This beautiful aching?
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