Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORY OF A. E. C., by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: My world is peopled not alone Last Line: Come friends who were and friends who are. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise | ||||||||
A murmuring music filled the room; The air grew sweet with spring-time flowers; The clock ticked softer on the wall, As loth to count immortal hours. MY world is peopled not alone By those its daily life who share; The loved whom other years have known Descend from their diviner air, As one might come from over sea, Or down the street to sit with me And make the fairest morn more fair; And mine are earth and sun and star, With friends who were and friends who are. They are the same as when they went Tender and true and still my own; But rarer beauty Heaven has lent, As if some wind of God had blown All trace of doubt and care and dole From each serene, enfranchised soul, And they could never more make moan! Yet my unlikeness cannot bar From friends who were and friends who are. O pure and blessed presences That enter, noiseless as the light, From your celestial pleasances, What welcome waits you, dawn or night! And in the sweetness, the repose, My common room a temple grows, All rosy bloom and stainless white, Where I commune, no fear to mar, With friends who were and friends who are. Yet not to outward sight they come; A finer sense their presence tells; As when, from winter cold and dumb, Unseen the south wind wakes the dells The south wind and the silent sun While robins sing and brooklets run And every bud with rapture swells! Such soul of spring, such Avatar, Come friends who were and friends who are. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE END OF LIFE by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 6 by CONRAD AIKEN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER by MARVIN BELL THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR A SKELETON FOR MR. PAUL IN PARADISE; AFTER ALLAN GUISINGER by NORMAN DUBIE BEAUTY & RESTRAINT by DANIEL HALPERN HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN by DORIANNE LAUX IF THIS IS PARADISE by DORIANNE LAUX COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR |
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