A KNOCKING at my heart -- and what art thou? "I was the unforgiven; from your door You spurned me once and bade me come no more. @3I am the ever present suppliant now."@1 A famine at my heart -- and what art thou? "I was that Lazarus, of men the least, Whom once you sent anhungered from your feast. @3I am the ever present hunger now."@1 An aching at my heart -- and what art thou? "I was that love you chose once to deride, Who, wounded at your threshold, fell and died. @3I am the ever present longing now."@1 A sweetness at my heart -- and what art thou? "I was the kindly deed you quite forgot, The joy bestowed that you remember not. @3I am your Angel of Forgiveness now."@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HIGHWAYMAN by ALFRED NOYES ENGLAND IN 1819 by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY COMPOSED AT NEIDPATH CASTLE, 1803 by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN by ALBERT LINDLEY BEANE THE DEPARTED by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE TOYS' COMPLAINT by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR |