Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GUEST, by JEAN RASEY


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GUEST, by                    
First Line: I shall remember when the early gloom
Last Line: Will you, my gracious friend, make it your home?
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


I shall remember when the early gloom
Drops a purple curtain on the West
That April was the time and in this room
We laughed together. You were the homey guest:
The yellow jonquils lost their proper air
And tea-time brought me cakes in frosted rhyme;
The crooning clock would lull my every care
And friendship glowed upon the hearth of time.

And now they tell me you are lying dead,
Dead at April time! There comes no tear,
Although I grieve within, for once you said:
"Bequeath me only smiles across my bier."
And when a guest within this house of loam,
Will you, my gracious friend, make it your home?





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