Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HUDDLED ONES BEHOLD ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG


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THE HUDDLED ONES BEHOLD ...., by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She has known death to hover near her bed
Last Line: And their repose the trust that each confers?
Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The


She has known death to hover near her bed
And smiled to find in him another friend,
Who nods, but wonders what life might have said
To urge him there so anxiously to bend;
Till life explains, I wanted you to see
A love that kept my aged heart astir,
And her to feel how precious she must be
Who causes even you to bow to her:

The huddled ones behold her solitude
And circle round the body wistfully,
Too grieved with loss to mark how death imbued
With her must likewise crave her company:
Might not the smile be his as well as hers,
And their repose the trust that each confers?





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