Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread; Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead. Your hands once touched this table and this silver, And I have seen your fingers hold this glass. These things do not remember you, beloved, -- And yet your touch upon them will not pass. For it was in my heart you moved among them, And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes; And in my heart they will remember always, -- They knew you once, O beautiful and wise. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DE PROFUNDIS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING HYMN OF TRUST by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE by MATTHEW PRIOR A CHRISTMAS CAROL by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE WAITER AND THE ALLIGATOR by G. W. A. THE MISTLETOE BOUGH by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY |