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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE AFTER SILENCES, by EDNA DENHAM RAYMOND
First Line: No, not within the depth of grief, one grieves
Last Line: And grieves and grieves and longs to be no more.
Subject(s): Memory; Night; Silence; Bedtime
First Line: No, not within the depth of grief, one grieves
Last Line: And grieves and grieves and longs to be no more.
Subject(s): Memory; Night; Silence; Bedtime
No, not within the depth of grief, one grieves.
But in the long cold silences that come
To stand like sentinels, who beckon from
Each old and bygone joy; which ever leaves
The shattered heart in pain. One then conceives
The things that never can be overcome,
The first great storm of grief does so benumb.
No, not within the depth of grief one grieves.
Within the hush that dwells behind the door
Are memories that time can never fade,
Those perfect golden hours that fate has stayed.
While far below life treads a lonely shore
And often kneels there in the still night shade
And grieves and grieves and longs to be no more.
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