@2H@1ELEN softly stole to me just now, Smiled and chided while she smoothed my brow: "Why so still and serious? @3Please@1 do n't be mysterious! Laugh and love and let us both be gay!" The shadow stirred and vanished; life was lit, Quick ecstasy irradiating it;— Ah, how I sprang to clasp her hand! Hardly yet can I understand;— Helen died a year ago to-day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOME VERSES UPON THE BURNING OF OUR HOUSE JULY 10, 1666 by ANNE BRADSTREET SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 by PETRARCH SONNET: 138 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE RECRUITING SERGEANT; A MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT: AIR by ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE LIBERTINE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |