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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: I heard at night your long sighs
Last Line: How the tears fell surging over my breast
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);mourning; Bereavement
First Line: I heard at night your long sighs
Last Line: How the tears fell surging over my breast
Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);mourning; Bereavement
"I HEARD at night your long sighs
And knew that you were thinking of me."
As she spoke, the doors of Heaven opened
And our souls conversed and I saw her face.
She set me a pillow to rest on
And she brought me meat and drink.
I stood beside her where she lay,
But suddenly woke and she was not there:
And none knew how my soul was torn,
How the tears fell surging over my breast.
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