Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


YOU WILL NOT COME AGAIN by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER

First Line: THE GREEN HAS COME TO THE LEAFLESS TREE
Last Line: YOU WILL NOT COME AGAIN.

THE green has come to the leafless tree,
The earth brings forth its grain;
The rose has come for the honey bee:
You will not come again.

The birds have come to the empty nest,
All winter full of rain;
Music has come where the silence was:
You will not come again.

Love swift will come for the weak lambs' cry;
Ah for my heart's dull pain!
Lone in the cycle of change am I:
You will not come again.



Home: PoetryExplorer.net