Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO ADA, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE


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First Line: Thine is the smile and thine the bloom
Last Line: Thou art not near a father's heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella
Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Death - Babies


Thine is the smile and thine the bloom
When Hope might image ripened Charms
But mine is fraught with memory's gloom
Thou art not in a Father's arms!

And there I could have loved thee most
And there have felt thou wert so dear
That though my worldly all were lost,
My heart had found a world more near!

What art thou now? a monument
That rose to weep o'er buried Love—
A fond & filial mourner sent,
To dream of ties restored above—

Thou Dove! who may'st not find a rest
Save in one frail and shattered bark!
A lonely Mother's bleeding breast—
May Heaven provide a surer ark!

To bear thee over Sorrow's waves
Which deluge all of realms below
Till thou the child of Him who saves
A holier Ararat shall know!

Nor deem me heedless—if for thee
No earthly wish now claims a part
Too dear such wish—too vain to me—
Thou art not near a Father's heart!





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