Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, JOE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY


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First Line: My darling's silent pet
Last Line: She never envies him.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


My darling's silent pet,
It seems too strange to be
That he is with us yet
And gone so long is she.

To curl upon her bed
He came at her command;
She smoothed his willing head
With her thin, lily hand.

He went and came again
And loved by her to be;
He goes and comes as then,
But nevermore comes she.

He used to heed her call—
Her voice was soft and low;
I wonder if at all
He listens for it now.

While to and fro he steals
As noiseless as a ghost,
I wonder if he feels
A sense of something lost;

If, thinking of her yet,
And loving her no less,
He longs to pay the debt
Of many a fond caress.

I see him go and come,
Uncertain what to do,
And wonder if, though dumb,
He is a mourner too.

Of time he had a shred,
And she eternity;
Yet he sleeps on her bed,
And in her grave sleeps she.

What is it we forget
When oft and oft we say
That he is with us yet
And she is gone away?

In her eternal place,
Among the cherubim,
His speck of time and space
She never envies him.





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