Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS DEAD WIFE, by THEODOR STORM Poet's Biography First Line: Here is too black a grief for bearing Last Line: On a tomb of ghostly dreams. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The | ||||||||
HERE is too black a grief for bearing, That still the sun makes golden time, And day to night is still a-wearing, That as when you with us were faring The clocks tick and the steeples chime; That when the candle-time is here We gather still in household grace, And nothing seems to miss you, dear, Though where you sat so many a year Another chair is in the place; While I know the moon is weaving Now her thin and lonely beams To the vault of my bereaving, Desolate, as is my grieving, On a tomb of ghostly dreams. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR by ANTHONY HECHT FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU by ANTHONY HECHT TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH by ANTHONY HECHT CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR by ERNEST HEMINGWAY NOTE TO REALITY by TONY HOAGLAND |
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