Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: 'BEAUTY SHE HAD ...', by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON


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YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: 'BEAUTY SHE HAD ...', by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember not my eyes when I am dead
Last Line: Death set her free, and gave her life at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The


REMEMBER not my eyes when I am dead,
Nor shining hair, nor slender body's grace;
For though I go in gleaming silk and lace
And bind a strand of gold about my head
It is not thus that you must think of me,—
Not as a picture in a shrinéd place,
Immortal for the beauty of my face
That moves you yet, though I have ceased to be.
Remember rather one who longed to break
From cold perfection learned one time too well;—
Whose thoughts alone had found the way to take
Flight with the wind;—for whom all storms went past
Only in dreams;—till one time it befell
Death set her free, and gave her life at last.





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