Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HEART MEMORIES, by JAMES THOMSON (1825-1888)


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First Line: There are mem'ries treasur'd in the heart which tongue hath never told
Last Line: When into that rich treasure-house we enter without fear?
Subject(s): Hearts; Memory


THERE are mem'ries treasur'd in the heart which tongue hath never told,
Nor would their rich possessors sell for worlds of glittering gold.
Our sacred treasure's guarded fast, with more than miser care;
We would not our bright gems display to the rude world's stare.

The heart that has no mem'ries dear is like an empty spring,
Which to the weary trav'ller's heart no healing waters bring.
But he whose soul is stored with these has more than jewels rare;
He carries daily in his heart a cure for biting care.

When tired of life's steep rugged road, he cheers his weary way
With mem'ries sweet of days long past, that seem but yesterday,
Perchance the forms of dear old friends up in review he brings;
They pass through memory's golden gate on soft and downy wings.

But there's a form, when all is fled, that ne'er doth pass away,
To mem'ry's eye 'tis never lost the livelong night and day;
Oft has that form brought peace and hope back to the troubled heart
And made the tears of bliss and joy unconsciously to start.

The soft sweet tear of memory, like blessed summer rain,
Quickens the dried-up weary heart, and bids it smile again.
Who has not felt the soothing power of mem'ry's soft'ning tear,
When into that rich treasure-house we enter without fear?





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