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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GONE, by MARIE TELLO PHILLIPS
First Line: One little word pregnant with sorrow
Last Line: "o I am desolate, desolate, desolate."
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Absence; Desolation; Separation; Isolation
First Line: One little word pregnant with sorrow
Last Line: "o I am desolate, desolate, desolate."
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeagle, Charles J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Absence; Desolation; Separation; Isolation
One little word pregnant with sorrow,
How can you bear the weight that you borrow?
Poignant with grief, loudly articulate,
One little word, but it means I am desolate.
Places now hallowed by memory only,
Now echo, "Gone," to one who is lonely.
One little word, loudly articulate,
"Gone, you are gone," leaving me desolate.
One little word, but it sounds like the thunder
Tearing the fabric of two lives asunder,
Striking with flaming forks, always reverberate,
"O I am desolate, desolate, desolate."
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