Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A LAST MESSAGE, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD


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First Line: Dear, I lie dying, and thou dost not know
Last Line: Listen, and learn—I loved thee, love, till death.
Subject(s): Love


DEAR, I lie dying, and thou dost not know—
Thou, whom of all the world I love the best!—
And wilt not know, until I lie at rest
With lips for ever closed, and lids dropped low.
O Love—O Love—I can not leave thee so!—
Can not, still undivined, still unexpressed,
Unheeding to the last my heart's behest,
Dumb into the Eternal Silence go!
What reck I in this moment of disgrace?
Albeit the whole world hear what my heart saith,
I cry aloud to thee across all space.
To thee—to thee—I call with my last breath!
O Love, lean forth from out thy dwelling place!
Listen, and learn—I loved thee, Love, till death.





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