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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FORTY YEARS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poet's Biography
First Line: These forty years! And forty years ago
Last Line: Mother, of a longing, of a fear and pain?
Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation
First Line: These forty years! And forty years ago
Last Line: Mother, of a longing, of a fear and pain?
Subject(s): Absence; Mothers; Separation; Isolation
THESE forty years! And forty years ago
You waited for me, day after weary day.
Then lived I but in you; now you in me
Live—a desire, a need, a memory.
And wait you now again, in the unapparent
And silent or but angel-winged air?
Wait you even now for me, to ease you again,
Mother, of a longing, of a fear and pain?
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