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IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7 by ALFRED TENNYSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: DARK HOUSE, BY WHICH ONCE MORE I STAND
Last Line: ON THE BALD STREET BREAKS THE BLANK DAY.
Subject(s): GAYS & LESBIANS; MOURNING; HOMOEROTICISM; LESBIANS; GAY WOMEN; GAY MEN; BEREAVEMENT;

Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand,

A hand that can be clasp'd no more --
Behold me, for I cannot sleep,
And like a guilty thing I creep
At earliest morning to the door.

He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again,
And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day.




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