Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FOUND FROZEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON


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FOUND FROZEN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She died, as many travellers have died
Last Line: But I, who loved her first, and last, and best, -- I knew.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The


She died, as many travellers have died,
O'ertaken on an Alpine road by night;
Numbed and bewildered by the falling snow,
Striving, in spite of falling pulse, and limbs
Which faltered and grew feeble at each step,
To toil up the icy steep, and bear
Patient and faithful to the last, the load
Which, in the sunny morn seemed light!
And yet
'T was in the place she called her home, she died;
And they who loved her with the all of love
Their wintry natures had to give, stood by
And wept some tears, and wrote above her grave
Some common record which they thought was true;
But I, who loved her first, and last, and best, -- I knew.





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