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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE SISTER OF ELIA, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Comfort thee, o thou mourner, yet awhile!
Last Line: He speaks: he bids thee rest.
Variant Title(s): To Mary Lamb
Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Lamb, Mary (1764-1847)
First Line: Comfort thee, o thou mourner, yet awhile!
Last Line: He speaks: he bids thee rest.
Variant Title(s): To Mary Lamb
Subject(s): Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Lamb, Mary (1764-1847)
Comfort thee, O thou mourner, yet awhile!
Again shall Elia's smile
Refresh thy heart, where heart can ache no more.
What is it we deplore?
He leaves behind him, freed from griefs and years,
Far worthier things than tears.
The love of friends without a single foe:
Unequalled lot below!
His gentle soul, his genius, these are thine;
For these dost thou repine?
He may have left the lowly walks of men;
Left them he has; what then?
Are not his footsteps followed by the eyes
Of all the good and wise?
Tho' the warm day is over, yet they seek
Upon the lofty peak
Of his pure mind the roseate light that glows
O'er death's perennial snows.
Behold him! from the region of the blest
He speaks: he bids thee rest.
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