Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THUS ENDETH, by NINA PETERSON


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THUS ENDETH, by                    
First Line: How quietly she sleeps
Last Line: Not hers.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


How quietly she sleeps.
The tears have all been shed --
No distilled drops of loneliness do sting her lids tonight.
No quivering, rebuffed pleading distorts her lips so pale.
No aching self-reproach for bitter thoughts,
No anguished yearning for fading dreams torments her heart.
She sleeps tonight.

And softly in the cool darkness
A vagrant breeze stirs the flowers on a new-made grave --
Not hers.





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