Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOU HAVE GONE, by BLANCHE PALMER


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YOU HAVE GONE, by                    
First Line: When day is done, within a quiet nook
Last Line: And only you and I are there.
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


When day is done, within a quiet nook,
As in a wooded place when all is still,
And I forget my pipe and book
And let my thoughts stray as they will,
I sit and dream of days gone by;
Those happy days when you and I
Together traveled glad worlds through.
But now—alas! my world was you
And life is like a wounded thing
That strives to rise on shattered wing.
With saddened heart I sit—alone—
And wonder endlessly, my own,
Why I must stay and you must go.
As though in answered prayer I know
Your loving hand upon my hair,
And only you and I are there.





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