Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DISCORDANTS: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN


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First Line: Music I heard with you was more than music
Last Line: They knew you once, o beautiful and wise.
Variant Title(s): Bread And Music
Subject(s): Life Change Events; Love; Love - Loss Of; Love - Nature Of


Music I heard with you was more than music,
And bread I broke with you was more than bread;
Now that I am without you, all is desolate;
All that was once so beautiful is dead.

Your hands once touched this table and this silver,
And I have seen your fingers hold this glass.
These things do not remember you, beloved, --
And yet your touch upon them will not pass.

For it was in my heart you moved among them,
And blessed them with your hands and with your eyes;
And in my heart they will remember always, --
They knew you once, O beautiful and wise.








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