Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VOICE OF THE VOID, by GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP


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First Line: I warn, like the one drop of rain
Last Line: For I am death!


I WARN, like the one drop of rain
On your face, ere the storm;
Or tremble in whispered refrain
With your blood, beating warm.
I am the presence that ever
Baffles your touch's endeavor, --
Gone like the glimmer of dust
Dispersed by a gust.
I am the absence that taunts you,
The fancy that haunts you;
The ever unsatisfied guess
That, questioning emptiness,
Wins a sigh for reply.
Nay, nothing am I,
But the flight of a breath --
For I am Death!





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