You who desired so much--in vain to ask-- Yet fed you hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest-- Achieved that stillness ultimately best, Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear! O sweet, dead Silencer, most suddenly clear When singing that Eternity possessed And plundered momently in every breast; #NAME? The harvest you descried and understand Needs more than wit to gather, love to bind. Some reconcilement of remotest mind-- Leaves Ormus rubyless, and Ophir chill. Else tears heap all within one clay-cold hill. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SELF-SEEKER by ROBERT FROST FORGIVENESS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE FALLOW DEER AT THE LONELY HOUSE by THOMAS HARDY |