Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY FIRST-BORN, by JESSIE D. M. MORTON


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MY FIRST-BORN, by                    
First Line: She came to my soul like a sunbeam of bliss
Last Line: The tears that are shed when alone.
Subject(s): Babies; Death; Love; Infants; Dead, The


SHE came to my soul like a sunbeam of bliss --
Like a ray of God's gladd'ning light;
My fond spirit folded her under its wings,
And I wept with a holy delight.

I gazed on her beauty, I heard her soft breath,
With feelings I never had known --
I trembled with joy as I lovingly dreamt
That the beautiful gem was my own.

A rapturous dream was that dream of my soul,
Too bright and too blessed to stay;
Forgive me, O God! the wild moment of doubt,
When the child of my love pass'd away.

Some griefs have a gloom, while they sadden the soul,
A solace would seem to impart;
'Tis the veil the angels hang over the soul,
While they bind up the wounds of the heart.

But O, there are wounds that they never bind up!
In silence they let them bleed on;
They know that till death they can only be wash'd
By the tears that are shed when alone.

Believe not, though smiles light the mother's pale cheek,
One drop of her sorrow is gone;
Ah, no! every smile has its tribute to pay,
In the tears that she sheds when alone.

They are sacred to truth -- they are sacred to Heaven,
And hopes that for ever have flown;
They spring from the fathomless deeps of the soul,
The tears that are shed when alone.





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