Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FEAR, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: I heard a sound of crying in the lane
Last Line: At the door and in the lane!
Subject(s): Fear; Mystery


I HEARD a sound of crying in the lane,
A passionless, low crying,
And I said, "It is the tears of the brown rain
On the leaves within the lane!"

I heard a sudden sighing at the door,
A soft, persuasive sighing,
And I said, "The summer breeze has sighed before,
Gustily, outside the door!"

Yet from the place I fled, nor came again,
With my heart beating, beating!
For I knew 'twas not the breeze nor the brown rain
At the door and in the lane!





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