Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 4. ALONE IN DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON


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First Line: Alone in death I think my heart will be
Last Line: Yet face my immortality of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement


ALONE in Death I think my heart will be;
I have no dead to wait me in that land,
And if with thee I entered, hand in hand,
When her voice called wouldst thou not turn from me,
And leave me lonely by that jasper sea --
Lonely, forever, on that silent strand,
When with entreaty stronger than command
Her languorous, low tones invited thee?

And she would find my kisses on thy mouth,
And yet forgive thee with a royal grace,
Because, when she had gone, too long the drouth,
The uncheered waiting her divine embrace --
And I, O God! should long to die again,
Yet face my immortality of pain.






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