Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ANOTHER TOMORROW, by PAULINE LEWELLING DEVITT


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First Line: Was it only last night in half darkness that I met him midway on
Last Line: Pray grant me another tomorrow! Love stirs like new life at its start.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of


Was it only last night in half darkness that I met him midway on the stair,
That he gave me a friend's greeting only as I held longing arms to him there?
His lips just brushed mine as I waited, not once did he toy with my hair --
Does it come with surprise
That the Stars have his eyes?
Shivering, I am thrust from our dream world to a plain by the wind swept bare.

What is it I have been expecting? I'm no longer a simpering bride;
I still have my books and my writing, green fields, blue hills, surging tide.
I shall mold my own life to my liking. Where is all that strong woman pride? --
Is the wind sighing so
Or a dove moaning low?
Dead love cannot be heartbreaking. Tomorrow I'll feel satisfied.

A year has been long in the passing, Oh God of my contrite heart!
Could I thrill once again to his footstep, I would play a wife's humblest part.
Life froze when I tried to live without love, so empty are honor and art --
Gentle patters of rain!
To revive the dead grain?
Pray grant me another tomorrow! Love stirs like new life at its start.





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