Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SICK-BED, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON First Line: O have you watched beside the bed Last Line: There's no repentance in the tomb. Subject(s): Sickness; Illness | ||||||||
O have you watched beside the bed, Where rests the weary, aching head? And have you heard the long, deep groan, The low-said prayer, in half-breathed tone? O have you seen the fevered sleep, Which speaks of agony within? The eye which would, but cannot weep, And wipe away the stains of sin? O have you marked the struggling breath, Which would but cannot leave its clay?. And have you marked the hand of death Unbind, and bid it haste away? Then thou hast seen what thou shalt feel; Then thou hast read thy future doom; O pause, one moment, o'er death's seal, There's no repentance in the tomb. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL AFTERNOON AT MACDOWELL by JANE KENYON HAVING IT OUT WITH MELANCHOLY by JANE KENYON SONNET: 9. HOPE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES A DREAM by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON |
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