Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY by ANONYMOUS

First Line: I HEARD AT NIGHT YOUR LONG SIGHS
Last Line: HOW THE TEARS FELL SURGING OVER MY BREAST
Subject(s): CHINA - MIDDLE AGES (600 B.C.- 618 A.D.);MOURNING; BEREAVEMENT;

"I HEARD at night your long sighs
And knew that you were thinking of me."
As she spoke, the doors of Heaven opened
And our souls conversed and I saw her face.
She set me a pillow to rest on
And she brought me meat and drink.

I stood beside her where she lay,
But suddenly woke and she was not there:
And none knew how my soul was torn,
How the tears fell surging over my breast.



Home: PoetryExplorer.net