Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GHOST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: Seek not to know love's full extent
Last Line: Confesses to the other's ghost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Love


Seek not to know Love's full extent,
For Death, not Life, must measure Love;
Not till one lover's dead and gone,
Is Love made strong enough to prove.
What woman, with a ghostly lover,
Can hold a mirror to her hair?
A man can tell his love with tears,
When but a woman's ghost is there.
Our greatest meeting is to come,
When either you or I are lost:
When one, being left alone in tears,
Confesses to the other's ghost.





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