Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVEN ROSEMARY, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE


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First Line: I have seen a grave this day
Last Line: Eyes ev'n heaven shall open not!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


I have seen a grave this day,
Yet no worm did therein lie; --
Only sweet Faith laid away,
Lonely to die,
Lonely as he lived, to die.

There's no buds. Ev'n rosemary
Hath sad dreams for smell withal;
Ev'n Hope's rose's leaf would be
Restless to fall;
To have done, and fade, and fall.

I will never walk again
Where such brittle dust doth lie;
Where to weep were quite in vain;
Vain too to sigh,
Only vain to weep and sigh.

Flee afar, then, heart, lest thou,
Quick with brooding on that spot,
Feign to see a dead face now,
Features forgot,
Eyes ev'n Heaven shall open not!





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