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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GHOST, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography
First Line: I will go back and I will lie
Last Line: To walk familiar ways again!
Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural
First Line: I will go back and I will lie
Last Line: To walk familiar ways again!
Subject(s): Ghosts; Supernatural
I WILL go back and I will lie
There in my grave—I will not try
To walk familiar ways again ...
Strange, that a ghost should feel such pain!
I wandered, wandered lonely there!
I saw another in my chair ...
They talked ... each word cut like a knife,
For, ah, they only talked of—life!
I could not make them see nor hear;
I could not make them feel me near—
I could not make them, though I tried ...
With life they were so occupied!
Yes, narrow are our beds, but we
Learn to lie in them quietly ...
Strange, that a ghost should feel such pain
To walk familiar ways again!
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A DESERTED HOUSE by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY