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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN MEMORIAM: LEO, A YELLOW CAT, by MARGARET SHERWOOD
First Line: If, to your twilight land of dream
Last Line: Of gentle words and gentle hands.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College
First Line: If, to your twilight land of dream
Last Line: Of gentle words and gentle hands.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death - Animals; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College
IF TO YOUR TWILIGHT land of dream --
Persephone, Persephone,
Drifting with all your shadow host --
Dim sunlight comes, with sudden gleam
And you lift veiled eyes to see
Slip past a little golden ghost,
That wakes a sense of springing flowers,
Of nesting birds, and lambs newborn,
Of spring astir in quickening hours,
And young blades of Demeter's corn;
For joy of that sweet glimpse of sun,
O Goddess of unnumbered dead,
Give one soft touch -- if only one --
To that uplifted, pleading head!
Whisper some kindly word, to bless
A wistful soul who understands
That life is but one long caress
Of gentle words and gentle hands.
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