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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOMAN'S FACE AT THE WINDOW, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poet's Biography
First Line: There''s a woman's face at the window, a face that / has faded white
Last Line: But if it is you she 'waits tonight, god grant that you bring her joy.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: There''s a woman's face at the window, a face that / has faded white
Last Line: But if it is you she 'waits tonight, god grant that you bring her joy.
Subject(s): Mothers
There's a woman's face at the window, a face that has faded white,
For there at the farther corner the world passes under the light,
And the one you wait will yet come home if you watch far into the night.
There's a woman's face at the window, and many the men who pass
Beneath the light at the corner, but never the one, alas!
There's a woman's face at the windowpane, and is it rain on the glass?
She may be only a mother who waits for a roving boy,
Or wife for a tardy husband delayed by the day's employ --
But if it is you she 'waits tonight, God grant that you bring her joy.
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