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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 19, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.
First Line: It was a child that walked my dreams last night
Last Line: That never was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Subject(s): Children - Lost
First Line: It was a child that walked my dreams last night
Last Line: That never was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
Subject(s): Children - Lost
It was a child that walked my dreams last night.
Smile of thy smile and eyes of thy dark eyes
Gave to his raptured face the gleaming light
Of that lone star which hung in Bethlehem's skies.
His slender hands played softly on my face
And lo! it was the touch I know so well;
He spoke, and there I heard the tender grace
Of thy clear voice. And then the passioned swell
Of love that draws my pulsing heart to thine
Bade me to reach and take him to my side—
I saw thy beauty, but this form of mine,
So wasted, frail—and then I broke and cried.
God heard the cry and took the child from me,
That never was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
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IN A PASTURE UNDER A CRADLED MOON by DAVID BOTTOMS
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WATCHING GATORS AT RAY BOONE'S REPTILE FARM by DAVID BOTTOMS
THE SUPREME GIFT by DAISY DEAN BUTLER
GOD'S ANSWER TO A GRIEVING MOTHER by HARRIET PARKER CAMDEN
CONSOLATION by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY