Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WIDOW'S REMARRIAGE, by MARY F. JOHNSON


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THE WIDOW'S REMARRIAGE, by                    
First Line: While her fond heart against the deed rebels
Last Line: No second choice can to the first succeed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moncrieff, Mary F. Johnson
Subject(s): Widows & Widowers


While her fond heart against the deed rebels,
While to her buried lord her hopes ascend,
Maternal love the widow's vows impels,
To gain her only child one fostering friend.
True to the memory of her former love,
Rather a victim than a bride she seems;
Her feigned and cheerless smiles deep sighs reprove;
From her dim eye the tear unbidden streams;
Sorrow conflicts with duty in her breast.
The mournful privilege of grief destroyed,
Too feelingly her glowing looks attest
Esteem can never fill affection's void;
And prove, that, in the heart which loved indeed,
No second choice can to the first succeed.





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